Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

In article <3e2sti$m1...@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Bilbo Baggins <bma...@dolphin.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>No. I'm sorry, Matt. This ends nothing.  When you create something and 
>send it out into the great wide world, you of necessity give up some of 
>your power over it.
>
>Just because you helped make it up doesn't mean you get to say how it's 
>pronounced.  You may get to have a pretty weighty opinion, but that's 
>it.

Why don't you pronounce something like _thorough_ or _rough_?  If you 
go out into the "great wide world" pronouncing a hard 'G', who's going to 
look like an idiot?  Would you defend yourself by saying that it's common 
sense that since there's a G in the word that it's ridiculous to *not* 
pronounce it?

But then again, you might be the type to spell these words as:  thurow 
and ruff.  There's no law in the English language that says that words 
(or acronyms) have to be spelled phonetically.  Frankly, whoever invented 
a new word should have the final say.

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