Linguistic Reasons Why Pronouncing GIF with a Hard G is Just Fine

libawr:

THIS IS THE POST I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

Thank you, linguisticated!

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People who do not know anything about linguistics love to educate others on how incorrect their use of language is. “Your child is ‘doing good?’ Oh you peasant, I think you mean your child is ‘doing well,’ because his performance of ‘doing’ is always ‘well done,’ you poor, uneducated person who ‘does poorly’ at life.” 

This has quickly happened in reference to the pronunciation of the acronym GIF, now that its creator has declared that it’s pronounced like the peanut butter brand favored by choosy (and we presume, sexy, moms). Here are 3 linguistic reasons why what he says does not matter at all.

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Source: linguisticated

sesamestreet:

Today Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, announced a multi-year partnership with Teaching Strategies, the educational company that publishes The Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD. 

Learn more at http://sesameworkshop.org/school

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marissamayr:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! 

We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.   

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

It’s official!

support: We’ve been getting lots of questions about a new browser extension called Babblr. Mostly from users asking if Tumblr created Babblr, and if it’s safe to use. We wanted to reach out and explain.  Tumblr has no association with or relationship to Babblr. Babblr is a browser extension developed and maintained by third parties, and isn’t supported by Tumblr. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the Babblr developers directly - we cannot pass messages along to them. We also cannot say how safe or unsafe any third-party applications, like Babblr, may be, nor can we make any statements about how they behave or what information they collect about you.
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support:

We’ve been getting lots of questions about a new browser extension called Babblr. Mostly from users asking if Tumblr created Babblr, and if it’s safe to use. We wanted to reach out and explain. 

Tumblr has no association with or relationship to Babblr. Babblr is a browser extension developed and maintained by third parties, and isn’t supported by Tumblr. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the Babblr developers directly - we cannot pass messages along to them. We also cannot say how safe or unsafe any third-party applications, like Babblr, may be, nor can we make any statements about how they behave or what information they collect about you.

fastcompany:

Recognize these photos? If you’ve seen Star Wars, you probably do. 

This the abandoned set of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet. A photographer accidentally stumbled upon the set, which sits in the Tunisian desert. They sit in perfect stillness, at the crest of the Sahara Desert, eaten away by dust and sand.

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Source: fastcompany

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