On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:59:28AM +1030, David Gowers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, vabijou2 <vabi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > So just because some old farts in Scotland may have good associations with > > the word, you think that renders the rest of the English-speaking world's > > interpretation silly? %-| > Personally, I think the question you just asks renders you silly (and > arrogant) > for presuming to speak for 'the rest of the English-speaking world'. > This is an issue on which opinions *are* divided within 'the > English-speaking world'. > I personally have never seen the movie 'Pulp Fiction' on which the > interpretation of GIMP as offensive seems to come, and while I agree > that 'Pulp Fiction' is fairly famous, I believe it's rather > America-centric to assume every English speaker holds that > association. Yeah, for the rest of the world, GIMP is just an acronim (I'm italian) and a perfect one.
please don't worry about the name... -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
