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I believe you're arguing against a strawman, as I never made an argument for a "global experience". My experiences indeed occurred in America, where the name GI

I believe you're arguing against a strawman, as I never made an argument for a "global experience". My experiences indeed occurred in America, where the name GIMP was an obstacle to its adoption. It's a linguistic issue, so it shouldn't surprise anyone if it differs with language.

emayljames 7y ago
Is not a strawman if GIMP changed it's name, this would effect world users. There is a very odd prudishness in the US. Is somewhat the same in the UK, but the US turns that knob full crank.
- true_religion 7y ago
  I think I’d you were to compare countries of the world, you would find Western Europe to be unusual in its lack of prudishness. In Europe you are free to do things and not be judged outside your microcosm communities standard. In the US, everyone eventually gets judged by mainstream standards. I would guess that Europe’s history of sectarian violence and war, has lead to this pervasive non judge mental attitude with regards subcultures.
  - emayljames 7y ago
    Great point. I'd also add that in the US, individuals that consider themselves to be religous is much higher, by a high margin. As the commenter just above me points out, there are many english names of things that are "rude" words in other countries. Edit: Latin America doesn't have that prudishness.
    - anthk 7y ago
      >Edit: Latin America doesn't have that prudishness. As an Spaniard, I am sure they are a lot more prude than us, by experience.
chinesempire 7y ago
Do you think that cockroachdb, squid, seamonkey, wine, f-spot (talk about jokes...) are better names? do you know that mist means manure and angel means fishing rod in German, in Swedish kiss means pee, slut means end, final, fart means speed and in Polish fart is good luck. And I'll let you lookup what smocking, flipper or scotch mean in Italian. I mean, have you ever considered that many things you say over there could have a complete different meaning here but that didn't stop you anyway? Why should we stop using GIMP then?

emayljames 7y ago

Is not a strawman if GIMP changed it's name, this would effect world users. There is a very odd prudishness in the US. Is somewhat the same in the UK, but the US turns that knob full crank.

true_religion 7y ago
I think I’d you were to compare countries of the world, you would find Western Europe to be unusual in its lack of prudishness. In Europe you are free to do things and not be judged outside your microcosm communities standard. In the US, everyone eventually gets judged by mainstream standards. I would guess that Europe’s history of sectarian violence and war, has lead to this pervasive non judge mental attitude with regards subcultures.
- emayljames 7y ago
  Great point. I'd also add that in the US, individuals that consider themselves to be religous is much higher, by a high margin. As the commenter just above me points out, there are many english names of things that are "rude" words in other countries. Edit: Latin America doesn't have that prudishness.
  - anthk 7y ago
    >Edit: Latin America doesn't have that prudishness. As an Spaniard, I am sure they are a lot more prude than us, by experience.

chinesempire 7y ago

Do you think that cockroachdb, squid, seamonkey, wine, f-spot (talk about jokes...) are better names? do you know that mist means manure and angel means fishing rod in German, in Swedish kiss means pee, slut means end, final, fart means speed and in Polish fart is good luck. And I'll let you lookup what smocking, flipper or scotch mean in Italian. I mean, have you ever considered that many things you say over there could have a complete different meaning here but that didn't stop you anyway? Why should we stop using GIMP then?