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google define: gay * "light-hearted and carefree." * "brightly coloured; showy."

• dmos62 6y ago
  Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay Etymology excerpt: [Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]
  • Fnoord 6y ago
    In high school I learned gai in French means cheerful. The joy some 13 year olds had with that word. Incidentally, the developer of the tool, Sam Hocevar, is French. For me the colours are by default in Solarized Dark, which skews the 16 colors into, well, in this case French flag colours. To test this, consider $ msgcat --color=test