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?
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You need to use the soft ‘g’ like gif.
“What’s a gimp suit?” 🤷♂️
It’s pronounced “JIMP” 😌
Like gif, right?
😒
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.
“like the suit?”
“I wouldn’t know, I’m not into men’s formal wear.”
Embrace it.
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’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.
I just say Imp now, if they ask I say it stands for image manipulation tool
That’d be IMT.
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.
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 just did, with and without safe search ON. The results were only about the GIMP we all know.
LOL, yeah, it still happens.
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…” ÜwÜAlternatively just say “I edit/create the images myself and use Canva to animate it”
also latex lol i always google things like “red colored text latex” and get pictures of people in latex suits
ASCII does not have Greek letters, so we bring this upon ourselves by misspelling: $LaTe\Chi$
It’s 2026, it’s been decades since there last was any good reason to use ASCII, you can just write LaΤέΧ now if you want to.
a) Alberat, like most of us lazy people, did not fo that. b) There are a lot of archived online discussions about this in which ASCII was assumed, so when we do start doing that we will omit those resources.
Seriously, Why ICE american(s), Why??
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.
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
