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. :) Peace... Tom _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user