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Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren't interested anymore. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you say in similar situations?
It's pronounced "JIMP" 😌
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Like gif, right?
"What's a gimp suit?" 🤷♂️
"like the suit?"
"I wouldn't know, I'm not into men's formal wear."
I'd just follow up in the same sentence with "it's an Adobe alternative". People tend to fix on the last thing in a sentence so they'll just ask why you don't use that instead.
Somebody had a cosmetic fork at one point called Glimpse.
The GIMP devs are downright fucking fascistic about never ever changing the name. Just suggesting it will get you unholy hellflame.
Gotta whip out "The GNU Image Manipulation Program" or just say "an open source image editor like Photoshop" or just say Photoshop of you are speaking to the wrong audience.
Having an acronym within an acronym feels like it should be illegal...
Check out what GNU stands for then. Infinite recursion time.
Or WINE
I once searched for "gimp mask", as I wanted to learn something about the masking features in the software. Well, as a non-native english speaker, I was quite amused about the results.
I pronounce it Jimp... for this reason ...and there's precedent with Gif.
"Creatives Opensource Creat Kit" would be better
there’s precedent with Gif.
Creators' UNified Toolkit
I know it's not easy for everyone but I think if one would say "GIMP!" with bit more confidence it would already help a lot.
Instead of doing the awkward:
"I-I use G-Gim.." sweats nervously "uummm Gimp.. It stands for GNU Image..." ÜwÜ
Alternatively just say "I edit/create the images myself and use Canva to animate it"
GIMP but pronounce it JIMP, like GIF
Now it sounds like a piece of IKEA furniture.
Enjoy our all new JÏMP chair.
Embrace it.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DB_403_026_2024-08-02_JM_5D413719.jpg
We liked our ICE perfectly well. Nowadays I can't even mention to a customer that I like trains.
also latex lol i always google things like "red colored text latex" and get pictures of people in latex suits
You need to use the soft 'g' like gif.
Anyone who tried to bring GIMP into nonprofits and schools dealt with this problem. I cannot explain how many uncomfortable conversations I had with non-technical people.
And the defenders will continue to say GIMP's name is fine and still be shocked of the low adoption rate.
That has to be a US thing there's no way anyone else is like that.
I work for a pretty button-down organisation and frankly they're ridiculously obsessive about corporate stuff but even they wouldn't blink at Gimp.
Maybe in America? I can tell you in most of the world, nobody would even think to give a fuck about the name, it doesn't mean anything. The word "gimp" isn't even popular enough.
This sounds like some weird copium: surely the app would take off and replace Photoshop long ago, if they just changed that damn name! There was one fork that thought that, with a different name, died shortly after creation. Because in reality nobody cares about the name.
We need something like blender to happen to GIMP, including a name change.
Well they did move to python with version 3, step in the right direction from a development standpoint
what are you gonna do, ask for a refund?
It's funny, because I'm not a native speaker and Gimp means.. well.. this software. I only learned what it meant years later.
I feel like a small drawback of (linux) open source is that everything is made by devs.
Sometimes I feel like a graphic designer or a marketing person might offer some really basic but solid advice... Like "don't name your app Gimp."
Discord is a terrible name for communication software, unless it's for arguments and disinformation.
Twitter. Not tweeter (which would make a bit more sense), but I suppose it's from "twit", another insult.
Git, also an insult. And then let's call sites GitHub and GitLab.
Names like iPad, ThinkPad, AnythingPad were all criticized for sounding like feminine hygiene products.
Most sites have a FAQ section, which non-native English speakers often read as "fuckyou".
And in russian-speaking countries "eBay" sounds vulgar to begin with.
I have always that "Discord" is a pretty spot on based on the vitriolic gamer user base.
They OBV have never cared. But it's probably one of the larger reasons it's never taken off in business. Just requesting it in some places would get you an HR violation.
My company provides GIMP to its employees. Turns out they care more about paying zero than a silly name.
The naming of tooling really matters, no one would use a software called cucked or rwrod whatever.
This shouldn't even be a discussion, this idiotic meme name probably had a massive impact on OSS software and it's perception by the public and I'm not even trying to exaggerate or joke.
It's the downside of volunteer-based work. There's noone to tell them no :)
Why not rename it to Linux Image Manipulation Program?
Oh, wait...
Ok, then just Image Manipulation Program?
... oh shit.
Just pronounce it "JIMP" and watch the .gif pronounciation debate light up once again!
