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    -12 months ago

    Oh good! Someone that thinks there’s multiple ways to pronounce it. Thankfully wiktionary only has a single IPA pronunciation for both the shoe and the brand and they’re the same. ˈnaɪkiː. Though I do appreciate you pulling out the Ancient Greek pronunciation as a “gotcha”.

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          02 months ago

          Generally “sane” people just stop talking to people they do not wish to hear from. When you don’t reply to people they tend to not reply back.

          Talking to someone in order to say you don’t want to talk to them is…

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              12 months ago

              Been working on that for 3 days have you? And decided that was worth talking to someone you previously indicated you don’t want to talk to?

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      12 months ago

      Thankfully wiktionary only has a single IPA pronunciation for both the shoe and the brand and they’re the same. ˈnaɪkiː.

      In English. It’s not even an english word though.

      My point, which you seem to not understand, is that the company doesn’t define how the name is pronounced (especially if they would go “like the godess”). It was a word before they used it. And “gif” is an acronym first, regardless of what the creator of the image format might think.

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        02 months ago

        My point, which you seem to not understand, is that the company doesn’t define how the name is pronounced

        They do. They created the product they get to create the pronunciation.

        It was a word before they used it.

        Are you talking about Nike or gif, cause gif was not a word before.

        And “gif” is an acronym first, regardless of what the creator of the image format might think.

        … this has no bearing on the pronunciation at all.