* Jim Henderson
On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:39:06 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
it is back to "perception". I am American, understand the negative usage of "gimp" which is definitely not "GIMP" and understand that the title/name of the graphic application is not intended to be derogatory, and there is that term "intended", I do not find it undesirable.
Context is important.
I was having a conversation with coworkers, and brought up the BBC TV Programme "Mock the Week".
That has a decidedly different meaning from what was heard, which was "Mock the Weak".
A quick explanation avoided a problem. Simple.
get off the fence or quit changing horses. you just proposed the name was not acceptable. this is not a debate, it is a duscussion and not about examples of "how you would do it" in order to avoid taking a clear stand. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode