Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P
* https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P
* https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P
Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P
* https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
Oh, those GIF wars... unlike "gibs," there is a *correct* answer to the
GIF question. It stands for _G_raphics Interchange File, as you know...
On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:56:21 +0200, Steven Thomsen-Jones ><[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/23/24 17:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P
* https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
I'm with Romero on this one, but I guess only because I've always
assumed it was a shortening of giblets. Or did we start out using the
full word originally? My fading memory has not the answer. Does make it >>harder to say "Get Gibbed" as you jump through a teleporter though I >>suppose. Although "Gib on this" as you fire a rocket launcher has a nice >>cadence.
I recall it as being 'gibs' from the start. I first encountered this
word on this very newsgroup, and remember trying to decipher what they
meant (in fairness, it didn't take me very long but there was that
moment of unfamiliarity).
In actual use, I tend to use both interchangably and without much
rhyme or reason. If I blow you up into bouncing blobs, I'll probably
say I 'jibbed' you... but the individual blobs? Those are ghibs to me.
Unless they're not. Like I said, I'm not that consistent with the
word.
But my 'official' head-canon pronunciation is hard-g 'ghibs'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Jethro_Gibbs
On Thu, 23 May 2024 13:02:54 -0500, Zaghadka <[email protected]>
wrote:
Oh, those GIF wars... unlike "gibs," there is a *correct* answer to the
GIF question. It stands for _G_raphics Interchange File, as you know...
Exactly. I never understood the fuss over this one.
If I recall, the issue arose when one of the people who worked on the >standard insisted it was 'jif' thereby adding some legitimacy to the
claim. I've never used anything but a hard G for GIF though for the
reasons given above.
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