Dr. Bailly sidestepped the question of how to pronounce GIF - with a hard or a soft G - by merely reading the letters, pronouncing it G-I-F in the following sentence:
"Mrs. Ramirez explained that Kylie was not quadrilingual because "emoji" and "GIF" don't count as languages."
It didn't matter to speller 210, Naysa Modi. She spelled quadrilingual correctly.