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I have no problem with English

I speak Italian as native language, for me GIMP is just a name, like the BALKARP IKEA sofa, I consider it a bunch of letter stuck together that represent something, but don't mean anything and if they sound like something real, it doesn't really matter.

I also speak English, Spanish, some French, some German

Of course I would never call my product "ugly bitch" but of course I wouldn't also call it pizza

And yet Martin Odersky language before Scala was named pizza

I wouldn't call it merda (it means shit, in the worst possible way)

There's an American band called black merda (in Italian it translates as black shit) they used it because it sound like murder in English

You have to understand that English is not the Lingua franca of anything, at best English spoken by non native English people is

You have to accept that speaking someone else's language doesn't mean you have to accept every cultural issue that people born with it might have

Photoshop is as ridiculous as gimp and I would never take seriously a software in Italian that is called "negozio di foto" from a company called "addobbo" for the operating system "finestre" or "mela"

It's something that would make me think of the kindergarten

But I accept it, ridiculous as they sound, because they are just brands, you get used to it and live on

GIMP is the best of the lotto because it means GNU image manipulation program, it's the most professional name of them all

And GNU is not the animal, is an acronym

If English people have a problem with their language, it's not a global problem

and btw, what all of you are getting wrong by supporting this infinite rant on the name of this particular program that come out every single time it is mentioned, is that the name is GIMP the all uppercase acronym not gimp the noun

Like IBM or IKEA or SKYPE or YAHOO (yes, they are all acronyms, funny that nobody seems to have anything to say about the professionalism of a software whose name is pronounced "sky pee" while billionaire CEOs use it and refer to it all the time...)

It's a GNU tradition to use them

Only who knows nothing about GNU and free software could find it offensive



IBM: International Business Machines

IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad (the founder's name), Elmtaryd (the farm where the founder grew up), and Agunnaryd (the founder's hometown)

Skype: SKY PEer-to-peer

Yahoo: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle




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