apiphile:

realdumbgirl:

don’t trust any man who makes fun of you for believing in astrology

believe me there are quite a few women who will laugh their faces off because you choose to believe wank too

Don’t trust anyone who believes in made-up nonsense like astrology.

detectivebuttcop:

onionchester:

word of the day is straight erasure. i laughed for a hundred thousand years

Straight erasure? That’s just not true.

lesserjoke:

solongasitswords:

todayiwrotenothing:

daveio:

• ‘GIF’ stands for ‘Graphics Interchange Format’
• ‘Graphics’ is pronounced with a hard ‘G’
• ‘GIF’ is pronounced with a hard ‘G’
• fuck y’all haters

But if you use this logic, then surely you should be pronouncing laser as lacer instead of lazer because the s stands for stimulated, which is pronounced with an unvoiced s. And scuba should be skuhba because the u stands for uhnderwater not oonderwater. Acronym pronunciation doesn’t necessarily follow the way the letters are sounded in the unabbreviated phrase. (This is actually pretty interesting. I should ask my linguist friends about rules/patterns of acronym pronunciation.)

If you make an acronym I think it basically conforms to the phonological rules of the language of the speaker (so, what sounds fit in that context easiest), and the interpretation of the spelling (so in ‘scuba’ we might expect the ‘underwater’ pronunciation if ‘scuba’ had two Bs). But this is just idle wondering because my brain is stuck on Old English orthography these days.

Acronyms tend to conform to the phonological rules of the language (and people tend to invent acronyms with an intended phonological realization in mind, although this is not always the case). But English doesn’t have the strictest sound-to-letter correspondence in the first place, and once an acronym enters the language, it can develop variable pronunciation by different speakers just like any word. I would imagine that’s even more likely in a case like gif, where most people encounter the word in writing long before they ever have occasion to hear it out loud.

Bottom line, though, is that the ‘correct’ pronunciation of any word is the way that speakers pronounce it. Sometimes, as with gif, that means there are multiple correct forms. Deal with it.

Thanks, linguists! I think the conclusion is that people who say gif-with-a-hard-G are correct and people who say gif-with-a-soft-G are correct, and everyone needs to stop debating the pronunciation of the word and post more gifs instead. And have a cup of tea.

slothturtle:

fancyladyindeed:

fandomblogger:

doctordonna10:

danglingthpider:

castielsunderpants:

phoenixgryffin:

drjohnhwatson:

thequeenofvillainy:

You know what’s creepy about Humpty Dumpty?

They never said he was an egg.

all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again BECAUSE HIS BLOOD WAS GUSHING OUT OF HIS CRACKED SKULL

SOMEONE PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT BEFORE THE SHERLOCK FANDOM STARTS ANGSTING. 

Too late

LOOK JAWN I’M HUMPTY DUMPTY 

GOD DAMMIT

humpty dumpty was a cannon

The omelette is people.

inscarletsilence:

imagineyouricon:

Imagine your icon holding your hand and rubbing your back when you feel sad.

#I can’t because cassie lang iS DEAD

I really ought to change my icon to a human. These imagineyouricon things give me some pretty weird mental images involving a prickly shrub.

daveio:

• ‘GIF’ stands for ‘Graphics Interchange Format’
• ‘Graphics’ is pronounced with a hard ‘G’
• ‘GIF’ is pronounced with a hard ‘G’
• fuck y’all haters

But if you use this logic, then surely you should be pronouncing laser as lacer instead of lazer because the s stands for stimulated, which is pronounced with an unvoiced s. And scuba should be skuhba because the u stands for uhnderwater not oonderwater. Acronym pronunciation doesn’t necessarily follow the way the letters are sounded in the unabbreviated phrase. (This is actually pretty interesting. I should ask my linguist friends about rules/patterns of acronym pronunciation.)