• gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 days ago

          Well, it’s not the P that’s read like an F, it’s PH that’s read like an F. If it was jpheg it would be read jfeg.

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              8 hours ago

              I didn’t downvote either of you, but here is why I disagree. The P is inseparable from the H in this situation. I would pronounce the P as half of a PH if I could, but “puh” is nothing like the first half of the sound “phuh”.

              • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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                2 hours ago

                I’m just realizing that they must be gettinf the ph from the P in JPEG standing for Photographic. I’m guessing the argument is that gif is pronounced like gift (germanic root) vs giraffe (latin/italian) because graphics has a hard g. But if gif was a word there’s obviously some people who would pronounce it that was, if jpeg was a word, we probably wouldn’t say Jay-pehg but nobody would pronounce the p like a ph so there’s no need to resort to the component words of the acronym.

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        2 days ago

        To be fair once you make a word from an acronym, it doesn’t really matter what the pronunciation of the individual words was.

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          2 days ago

          Maximum cleaning

          Minimum scrubbing

          I’ll never have to buy toilet paper again!

          Edit: Also, I like the taste of citrus so that’s nice too!