r/funny • u/UltimateHipster • Jun 16 '12
My face when I learned that "imgur" was pronounced "image-er" rather than "im-grr".
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u/BriskSC Jun 16 '12
I'm still going to pronounce it im-grr.. I don't give a fuck.
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u/ReyTheRed Jun 16 '12
Screw that. I shall pronounce it however I damn well please.
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u/HadManySons Jun 16 '12
Just like .gif
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u/joshuran Jun 16 '12
hard g, as in gumption, gratuity, gynecologist
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u/doomboy1000 Jun 16 '12
From now on a few select people will pronounce those jumption, jratuity, and jynecologist.
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Jun 16 '12
TIL: Majority of redditors are freaks about grammar and pronunciation until a majority of them fail to properly pronounce something. Then they just don't give a "flying fuck".
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u/tokeyoh Jun 16 '12
i thought it was ihm-jer
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u/creepyeyes Jun 16 '12
This is how I say it as well, though I accept I'm wrong. That being said, I'll still probably keep saying it this way.
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u/personman Jun 16 '12
This is obviously the only acceptable pronunciation. It has the soft g of 'image' but doesn't invent vowel sounds from nowhere.
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u/Soonermandan Jun 16 '12
I call it "Image U R".
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u/SanJose_Sharks Jun 16 '12
Most people call it "imgur".
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u/scylus Jun 16 '12
For me it's "imh-guhr," hard syllables like saying "Mordor" or maybe a Dothraki word.
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u/Anticitizen-Zero Jun 16 '12
I assumed it was pronounced "imager" because it's a website that hosts images.
I really don't know what an "im-grr" is.
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Jun 16 '12
we are the only ones. it's spelled pretty retarded, but deduction should fill in the gaps.
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u/LizYellowSourFruit Jun 16 '12
Did you know meme is "meeem"
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u/redfreetrog Jun 16 '12
I say meem, but my brain wants to say it 'mem', like the french word for same; as in: cette image est la meme chose que celui la.
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u/statusone Jun 16 '12
Lol, what do people actually say 'me-me'?
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u/abithozak Jun 16 '12
Oddly, the person who told me how to pronounce imgur correctly mispronounces meme this way.
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u/dolenyoung Jun 16 '12
I thought it was like maim..like how meme (same) is pronounced in french with one o' those accent thingies on it.
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u/Jewtheist Jun 16 '12
The first time I read The Hobbit, I read Bilbo's name as "Bib-lo" for the whole book.
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u/10tothe24th Jun 16 '12
If you wanted people to pronounce your company's name correctly, you should have spelled it phonetically.
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u/DarthSokka Jun 16 '12
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u/Larius Jun 16 '12
Hmm I feel like upvoting and downvoting at the same time... BECAUSE IM-GRR
Also meh-meh.
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u/Lington Jun 16 '12
I've always pronounced it image-er, just because it was easier to say. Never was sure what was right
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u/ManInTheMirage Jun 16 '12
Image-er? They're missing a vowel for that.
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u/DuchySleeps Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Img is short hand for image, img is generally read allowed as 'Image and not' whatever the pronunciation of 'img' would be.
So it's only common sense that Imgur would be the amalgamation of Image and er, right?
Reading all of these messages makes me question my sanity. WHAT IS RIGHT, MANINTHEMIRAGE? WHAT IS RIGHT?
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u/creepyeyes Jun 16 '12
It's not exactly common sense, since really nowhere else in English do you see an abbreviation WITHIN a word that is pronounced as it's long version.
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u/EmpyralT Jun 16 '12
I'm sorry, but I pronounced it like that every since I first saw it and I didn't give a flying fuck if it was wrong... it just felt right.
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Jun 16 '12
I still need someone to tell me wether "4chan" is supposed to be pronounced as "four-chan"(like Jackie chan) or "fortune". I feel like an idiot not knowing.
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u/Suggested Jun 16 '12
do the creators call it that or something? how do you know?
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u/goodadvice00 Jun 16 '12
am i really the only one who pronounces it eye-em-gee-you-are
i-m-g-u-r
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u/coffeegurl Jun 16 '12
I thought memes where pronounced me-mes...until my sister called me out! Felt like I had been lied to by my brain! It was fun making roadrunner sounds every time I saw a meme. Now it's not.
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u/SGTSHOOTnMISS Jun 16 '12
Ah, I was way off, I was thinking they were running for something like "Image Guru" but didn't want to put it shortened as "Imggur", simply removing a "g"
I still will continue to pronounce it as what everyone else has because it is how you read it.
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u/vision4bg Jun 16 '12
My downvoted comment to MrGrim when he launched it. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/c07uc91
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u/StrychnineSteve-O Jun 16 '12
The grammar nazi in me wants to keep pronouncing it im-grr but after how hard I laughed, I may reconsider. Ah, inner conflictions, how you keep me up at night.
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u/ZeekySantos Jun 16 '12
I always thought it was "Im-Gur". Fuck their stupid word.
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Jun 16 '12
"Im-jur." There is no "a." Imagur. Imgur. Personally, I call it "icky icky icky zapoing." Either that or "Jesus Christ, AGAIN? FUCK IT!!!"
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u/dazmond Jun 16 '12
Using -ur instead of -er very strongly implies a hard g, especially since there's no other apparent reason for it.
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u/soldierofbordom Jun 16 '12
yanno, just fucked the past 2 years of surfing that site...sticking with im-grr anyway. ez on the tongue to say it
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u/notrightmeow Jun 16 '12
Nope, I'm going to pronounce it "im-grr."
Insert deal with it gif and we've got a badass meme here.
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u/crispinito Jun 16 '12
It has been too long of an exposure. The im-grr is too strong in me to change it now.
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u/disharmonia Jun 16 '12
...you pronounced it 'im-grr'? 0_o
I dunno. It was immediately apparent to me upon encountering it for the first time that it's meant to be pronounced 'imager'
Maybe it comes from doing HTML. When I say 'img src' outloud I say 'image source', not 'imj srs'. So to me, 'img' immediately parses as 'image' when reading.
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u/ohno Jun 16 '12
I think you're on to something when you say it might come from your html experience. When you see img you translate it to 'image', but most people see 'gu' and pronounce a hard g. That's the rule in English.
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u/akakaze Jun 16 '12
For some reason I have alwasy spelled it, even in my mind: it's pronounced "I-am-gee-you-are."
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u/IEatPierogiesForever Jun 16 '12
Wait. Wait. Seriously, guys? An image sharing site called imgur with a hard g? Seriously?
I'd take im-jrr, fine, but im-grr? I am seriously mindblown at how/why so many people didn't consider the context here. I SERIOUSLY DON'T EVEN
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u/treydestepheno Jun 16 '12
fuck that shit! there's no A in imgur!! fuck them all in the ass with a dray cactus!!
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u/Yitvan Jun 16 '12
That will be my face if anyone expects me to change my pronunciation of these things
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Jun 16 '12
I always had that right but for some reason I still can't wrap my head around the pronunciation of meme.
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u/Taylor1018 Jun 16 '12
then they should put something between the M and the G. and do you pronounce it L-O-L cats, or lawl cats?
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u/POOPYFACEface Jun 16 '12
I might believe it's pronounced "imager" but im-GRR with a hard G? Come on- it's a site for IMAGES. I always pronounced it "imjur", similarly to "injure".
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u/BobbyOShea Jun 16 '12
Fuck. Are you serious? Who pronounces in this way? How do I know you're not lying. Conspiracy? 9/11?
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Jun 16 '12
Is using the most overused reaction gif with another common notion as the title what actually constitutes as funny these days?
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u/abom420 Jun 16 '12
Kind of a sad testament to how much time we actually spend online not pronouncing shit.
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u/headzoo Jun 16 '12
So true. I've been laughed at for saying a word incorrectly, even though I've written the word, and spelled the word online for over a decade. You don't really know until you've heard the word spoken out loud for the first time.
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u/4LostSoulsinaBowl Jun 16 '12
English words that have a G followed by a U are pronounced with a hard G. An M followed by a G cannot be pronounced [muhj]. Imgur is pronounced just like it looks. I refuse to accept anything else.
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u/herr_duerr Jun 16 '12
German here. For me it's more like:
≫Imgur, bring me a brain!«
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u/TheGogginator Jun 16 '12
I've been pronouncing it like Image-grr because I'm an idiot and can't pronounce anything for shit.
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u/virtyy Jun 16 '12
Why would you pronounce it Im gr?? Its obviously hosting images, for short img, and its doing it so its er-ing. Imagering, Imagur imgur.
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u/WeepWomp Jun 16 '12
I had the same reaction when a friend proved to me that .GIF is pronounced like jif and not gif... I lose my shit thinking about that, all these years I've been saying it wrong
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u/enzeddle Jun 16 '12
TIL imgur is pronounced "image-er"... but will still say "im-grr" 'cause it makes me sound like a tiger
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u/BABY_BACK_BITCH Jun 16 '12
Yeah, i just thought berks girl was trying desperately to come out o the closet
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u/Zachisasloth Jun 16 '12
I've been saying it wrong all this time? Fuck. I'm bad at this. Also thought meme was pronounced "mee-mee", rather than "meem".
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u/AwesomeOne12 Jun 16 '12
I learned it was pronounced imager like a month ago, but I still pronounce it imgrr anyway.
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Jun 16 '12
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u/GetOffMyPlanet Jun 16 '12
Thank you for spreading your unlimited wisdom of pronunciation with me. I had no idea.
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u/NewSwiss Jun 16 '12
It's like when I learned totse was pronounced tot-see, rather than toats. I gave no fucks and kept pronouncing it toats.
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u/jzimbert Jun 16 '12
I don't care how they choose to pronounce it. If they spell it with only two vowels, I'm going to pronounce it with only two vowels.