Vosh@programming.dev to Open Source@lemmy.ml · edit-22 months agoGIMP is gearing up for a massive upgradewww.gimp.orgexternal-linkmessage-square202linkfedilinkarrow-up1603arrow-down17cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarenasi_goreng@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 month agoEnglish is diverse language and each regional English have their own offensive world that have different meaning in different English speaking area. Maybe you should meet more Indian English speaker and Singaporean English speaker. Heck, Australian English invent various offensive word.
minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYes but we don’t use them in professional contexts. There is no Dickheadsoft, no Drongo Ware. We haven’t call any software C.U.N.T. GIMP means the same thing here and it’s just as unprofessional.
minus-squarenasi_goreng@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoMy point is that due to British colonialization, English is now a diverse language that have diverse new word and regional meaning. GIMP in English Asia doesn’t have bad connotation. Not in Singaporean English, not in Indian English. Making one standard of English is just reeks language colonialism.
minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNo it’s just regular PR. We avoid 4 in products due to negative connotations in Asia, even though it means nothing here.
English is diverse language and each regional English have their own offensive world that have different meaning in different English speaking area.
Maybe you should meet more Indian English speaker and Singaporean English speaker. Heck, Australian English invent various offensive word.
Yes but we don’t use them in professional contexts.
There is no Dickheadsoft, no Drongo Ware. We haven’t call any software C.U.N.T.
GIMP means the same thing here and it’s just as unprofessional.
My point is that due to British colonialization, English is now a diverse language that have diverse new word and regional meaning.
GIMP in English Asia doesn’t have bad connotation. Not in Singaporean English, not in Indian English.
Making one standard of English is just reeks language colonialism.
No it’s just regular PR.
We avoid 4 in products due to negative connotations in Asia, even though it means nothing here.