/rotflmao :-) lol/ Brendan wrote:
>On Thursday 21 December 2006 21:06, Tom Williams wrote: > > >>Brendan wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 18 December 2006 19:52, lists wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Carter castor wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>This goes right to the heart of my biggest complaint about GIMP >>>>>though: its name. I don't understand why the developers would put so >>>>>much time and hard work into creating a program as professional as >>>>>GIMP and then name it after a slang word for a disabled person. How >>>>>do you sell that to a corporation? How do you market that? The >>>>>people in business suits are going to chose a program named Photoshop >>>>>over Gimp 11 times out of 10. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Oh my God, let's not start this again. It's an acronym, get over it. >>>> >>>> >>>Oh wait, Geoffrey says "Get over it". Everybody with an opinion or actual >>>relevent facts, forget it. Geoffrey said so. >>> >>> >>Well, he's got a valid point. I don't get why everyone is discussing >>the word "Gimp" from an English language standpoint when Gimp is an >>*acronym*, as I also pointed out earlier on in this discussion. >> >>For example, "Sarasota County Area Transit" is a name of a transit >>agency and its acronym is rather interesting. :) >> >> > >What if they wanted to just call it SCAT, and then pretended to be "so >confused" when people laughed? "Jeez, it's just an acronym, even if 300 >million people might giggle and laugh when I say it. Oh well, those Indians >won't laugh when I say GIMP or SCAT." >_______________________________________________ >Gimp-user mailing list >Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > >
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