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The PNG Pronunciation Debate: Settled by the Spec
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The PNG Pronunciation Debate: Settled by the Spec

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A screenshot of what appears to be official documentation, decisively ending a common tech debate. The image has a header section with the text 'From the PNG spec', indicating the source is the official Portable Network Graphics specification. Below this, a large, bold heading reads 'Pronunciation'. The key piece of information is a highlighted sentence that states, 'PNG is pronounced "ping".'. This meme derives its humor from its appeal to authority - the official 'spec' - to settle a trivial but often passionately debated topic among developers: whether to pronounce the acronym as 'P-N-G' or 'ping'. It's a classic 'well, actually' moment that resonates with the pedantic nature of engineering culture and the ultimate respect for primary documentation as the source of truth

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Great, the PNG spec settled it. Now, can the SQL standard please issue a formal ruling on whether keywords should be uppercase or lowercase? The people need to know
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Great, the PNG spec settled it. Now, can the SQL standard please issue a formal ruling on whether keywords should be uppercase or lowercase? The people need to know

  2. Anonymous

    The spec says PNG is “ping” - great, now when I ask for a high-res ping the designers hand me a 4 MB image and the SREs start tracing ICMP packets; at least the bikeshed finally has a color

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years of saying 'pee-en-gee' in meetings, discovering the spec says 'ping' is like finding out you've been pronouncing 'SQL' wrong your entire career - except now you have to decide whether to die on this hill or quietly gaslight everyone who heard you say it differently

  4. Anonymous

    After decades of developers arguing whether it's 'P-N-G' or 'ping,' someone finally RTFM'd the spec. Turns out the answer was on page 698 all along - right there in the official documentation that nobody reads until they need to win an argument. Classic case of 'the documentation was inside us all along'... or rather, publicly available since 1996

  5. Anonymous

    PNG spec mandates 'ping' pronunciation - finally, an image format with mandatory network round-trip latency in every utterance

  6. Anonymous

    Great, now Grafana alerts for "high ping" could mean ICMP latency or a 4MB hero image

  7. Anonymous

    Spec says PNG is pronounced “ping”; somewhere ops is chasing ICMP latency while marketing ships a 10MB transparent hero ping - different pings, same SLO breach

  8. @mihanizzm 2y

    Pee an gee

  9. @bubblechuk 2y

    3.14ng

  10. @dp229 2y

    Oh hell nah man

  11. @callofvoid0 2y

    they lied us all

  12. @sorokdvasorrow 2y

    No, it's not...

  13. @buffy_bara 2y

    peng

  14. @M_Ali_S_S 2y

    These are the same people who call gif, jif

  15. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    Is this Linus Tech Tips reference?

  16. @callofvoid0 2y

    damn

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

      Do you think they will mark me as “never ever look at this guy’s complaint ever”?

      1. @callofvoid0 2y

        nah they will mark your next reports as:"hey gather here, here's the new joke"

        1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

          💀💀💀😂😂😂

  17. @SamsonovAnton 2y

    Many people dare to say that SCSI is pronounced as "SKUZ-ee" (ˈskʌzi), but true oldfags know that it sounds "Sexy".

    1. @sylfn 2y

      ass-see-ass-eye

  18. @Le_o_R 2y

    At a conference I had lunch with a guy who worked at MySQL (which had just been bought by Sun). He said some people call it My Es Cue El. Some people call it My Sequel. But he personanly preferred calling it My Sexual.

  19. @Horace4815162342 2y

    ПЭ ЭН ГЭ

    1. @purplesyringa 2y

      use english in this chat please

    2. @sylfn 2y

      peh -- enne -- gheh

      1. @purplesyringa 2y

        are you french or what

        1. @sylfn 2y

          what

          1. @purplesyringa 2y

            i don't even know how to count how many unpronounceable letters there are

            1. @sylfn 2y

              a fucking lot

              1. @sylfn 2y

                but they all are necessary!!

        2. @sylfn 2y

          lmao

      2. @sylfn 2y

        ipa is unneeded if you can read this bullshit

        1. @purplesyringa 2y

          i can't

          1. @sylfn 2y

            why

      3. @sylfn 2y

        sorry i miswrote

        1. @sylfn 2y

          ref

          1. @RiedleroD 2y

            XD

            1. @sylfn 2y

              whaaaats wrooong 😭

  20. @Horace4815162342 2y

    I know about the speciffic rule of this channel but english language does not have the same Э sound that i picture in my head

    1. @purplesyringa 2y

      right

      1. @purplesyringa 2y

        i've just tried translating it into IPA and failed

        1. @purplesyringa 2y

          this is probably [pə ɛn gə] (the default russian pronounciation of the letters П meaning P, Н meaning N, Г meaning G separately)

    2. @callofvoid0 2y

      Eh

  21. @Horace4815162342 2y

    Not even close

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