On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:27 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Stephen Griffiths wrote: > > ... elision by Patrick > > The name GIMP is not so invaluable that it cannot be changed, also there > > is a massive number of outsiders who find the name truly unappealing, I > > do not hear the raw of the people saying they love the name. > > > You can hear my raw here. I love the name. It appeals to me as a geek > (I'm sure that you really hate THAT word, so much more fraught with > ill-meaning than gimp) You are not making noise without being prompted. I didn't say I hated it (but there are those who do hate it), I just stated that it was not clever. Wordplay has for many years been considered the highest form of humour, it has only become less accepted as such in recent history. I still accept wordplay to be high humour, in this case I think GIMP is not very clever. > there ARE no negative connotations. gimp and GIMP. UPPERCASE and lowercase. I doubt you needed that explained to you, but you did seem to play dumb there. > We know what we mean Is it wrong that a language be used for communication between more than a small number of people? > or eventually become cool Is that what people think when they look this way "those guys are cool". 'Cool' is a social system only relevant in high-school. > GIMP has panache. (N.B. I don't mean the meaning of panache that > signifies a bunch of feathers or a plume on a helmet. I know some > people get caught up in the idea that any possible definition of a > word > must be considered when communicating, but that's way too much > trouble, > and as someone earlier correctly suggested that I meant to say, > silly.) I am glad you found some really sick definition of a word to make your point. My question is why didn't you just choose a simpler and more descriptive word, a word that would not require 4 lines of explanation to avoid confusion. You should attempt to communicate in a simpler manner, because it looks to me like this could have been said as "You have a point of view, boo, that is stupid". well, till next time, Stephen. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
