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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
The GIMP has suffered from this for a long time. Lots of calls to change the name just go ignored. It’s genuinely hard to recommend it to people as a Photoshop alternative just because of that alone.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Funny, I don’t even use The GIMP, and I think of it as “The GNU Image Manipulation Program” before I think of the BDSM meaning (or the handicap slur).
I’m weird. And probably the exception.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
To be honest, I think you’re in the majority. Non-native speakers will know it almost exclusively as the image manipulation program.
Dojan@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Handicap slur?
bran_buckler@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
As in a “gimp leg”. Another old term in the same vein would be “lame”. But then those terms could be used to describe a person as a whole, becoming the slur.
Dojan@pawb.social 17 hours ago
Ooh. I don’t think I’ve encountered the term used like that before.