Jod made the Jiraffes and the Giraffes and they were best friends. But then one Jiraffe found God and he spited Jod and all the Giraffes with all his might.
I’ll just post my comment from when I ran across this on lemmy before
I’ll tell the agile fragile fugitive gin-drinking giraffes eating ginger ginseng to imagine gingerly using their digits to engineer a geological survey of the gist of your comment. They ate too much gingerbread and now have gingivitis, so the margins of those attracted to religion aren’t as rigid as the original origins of those of that region and we have to remain vigilant lest magic supersede logic, which of course would be terrible for legislation of the legions.
Nice gimmick. Counterpoint: this GIF of some giggly git giving a gilt gizzard and a large haggis to a giddy girl named Gidget. (GIF omitted because I made it tf up). Incidentally, not a single one of your examples included “gi” followed by “f”.
Incidentally, I pronounce it “jif”, I just think appealing to English as if it had actual rules is insane.
Yeah I pulled it out originally because I was tired of people saying that “gi” is almost always hard g, and I don’t think the lack of f makes a difference (because English spelling rules are silly, like you say. In the other thread I mentioned that just because the word “women” exists we don’t pronounce every “wom” sequence with a short i sound).
Not everyone pronounces “women” with a short i sound, it’s regional and there are no arguments about the “proper” pronouciation. The word is clearly understood either way so it doesn’t matter.
Yeah of course “proper” doesn’t really mean anything when talking about idolects. I’m curious though–I’ve been trying to get more information about the /wʊmən/ pronunciation for awhile. Do you know what region it’s common to? That pronunciation doesn’t show up in any dictionary (or at least any American one) except wiktionary and whenever I search for it there’s not much info about it. I’m trying to figure out if it’s regional or a more recent trend spread across a younger group online or something.
Lmao, idk why anyone would claim that either. Re: the other part, I also don’t think there’s any inherent reason the “f”, but in my sleepy haze writing this last night I wasn’t able to think of an example with the soft “g” followed by “if”. I feel like it must exist but I’m too tired to find it.
Looks like the only “normal”(ish) word that has the gif string is fungi, and even that has both hard/soft g listed as pronunciations. There are also apparently a few long words like spongiferous and some biologic classes (as opposed to (eg) species) ending in -formes that happen to end in -giformes (like Archaeopterygiformes). But I wouldn’t expect too many people to have those in their pocket during a discussion of -gif- words.
Jod made the Jiraffes and the Giraffes and they were best friends. But then one Jiraffe found God and he spited Jod and all the Giraffes with all his might.
Attempting to parse this comment is what I imagine having a stroke to be like
I’ll just post my comment from when I ran across this on lemmy before
Nice gimmick. Counterpoint: this GIF of some giggly git giving a gilt gizzard and a large haggis to a giddy girl named Gidget. (GIF omitted because I made it tf up). Incidentally, not a single one of your examples included “gi” followed by “f”.
Incidentally, I pronounce it “jif”, I just think appealing to English as if it had actual rules is insane.
Yeah I pulled it out originally because I was tired of people saying that “gi” is almost always hard g, and I don’t think the lack of f makes a difference (because English spelling rules are silly, like you say. In the other thread I mentioned that just because the word “women” exists we don’t pronounce every “wom” sequence with a short i sound).
Not everyone pronounces “women” with a short i sound, it’s regional and there are no arguments about the “proper” pronouciation. The word is clearly understood either way so it doesn’t matter.
Yeah of course “proper” doesn’t really mean anything when talking about idolects. I’m curious though–I’ve been trying to get more information about the /wʊmən/ pronunciation for awhile. Do you know what region it’s common to? That pronunciation doesn’t show up in any dictionary (or at least any American one) except wiktionary and whenever I search for it there’s not much info about it. I’m trying to figure out if it’s regional or a more recent trend spread across a younger group online or something.
Lmao, idk why anyone would claim that either. Re: the other part, I also don’t think there’s any inherent reason the “f”, but in my sleepy haze writing this last night I wasn’t able to think of an example with the soft “g” followed by “if”. I feel like it must exist but I’m too tired to find it.
Looks like the only “normal”(ish) word that has the gif string is fungi, and even that has both hard/soft g listed as pronunciations. There are also apparently a few long words like spongiferous and some biologic classes (as opposed to (eg) species) ending in -formes that happen to end in -giformes (like Archaeopterygiformes). But I wouldn’t expect too many people to have those in their pocket during a discussion of -gif- words.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-containing-gif
https://word-finder.com/words-with/gif/
Did Jeorge of the gungle come by too?
Would that by any chance have cast a young Steve Buscemi?
Sounds great, to be honest (Frasers shitty default face and one eyebrow was always off-putting)