I personally am on teams gif and jibli.
I’m going to start pronouncing it with a Q just to fuck with people
just wanna point out for team jif graphics interchange format, not jraphics
Libyan here Pronounciation in libyan is more like "Gibli" with a g sound like "gas" Q is the correct way to pronounce it if you read it in standard arabic where ق is akin to Q but in libyan it's closer to the g sound
It was an accident but Miyazaki says that he wanted it to be jiburi sound wise
It being named after a plane is absolutely perfect. Miyazaki knows what he is about.
Miyazaki said that he made a mistake, not knowing that the Italian word is pronounced with a hard G at the time. But by now the word "Jibli" is really well established in Japanese, so like you I pronounce it this way.
The chaotic third option of over annunciating the H so it doesn't matter either way
now we just need to see Shadow and Sonic arguing over this
I avoid the "gif vs jif" conversation by literally saying "G-I-F"
technically, the correct pronounciation(s) will end up being the ones widely used, regardless if it's "correct" or not, so do with that information what you will
Libya is mentioned ❤
Shi with the little toks makes it a Jhi... Doesn't matter what the original inspiration for the name was.
Ok so gif is pronounced gif because the g stands for graphics and you don’t pronounce graphics Jraphics
I pronounce it like “jee buh lee”
Didnt know it was derived from arabic
And how shoud I pronounce Hayao Miyazaki? And Joe Hisaishi?
But who are the La Li Lu Le Lo?
i got ghibbed
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