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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:09:47 +0000
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On 04/01/2025 06:16, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:06:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 04/01/2025 00:43, D wrote:
>>> Negro has also become a symbol word.
>>
>> You have to be really uneducated and thick not to know it simply means
>> 'black'.
> 
> The best PC invention is latinx.  It sounds like something you take when
> you haven't shit in three days. I don't even think the latinx people care
> for it. Indian is touchy too. Some are into 'Native American', some
> aren't.
Well calling them Indians was a mistake made by some twat who thought 
the world was a lot smaller than it turned out to be. And he had sailed 
west to India...

An alarming number of words are mistranslations and corruptions.


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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted 
man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest 
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly 
persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid 
before him."

    - Leo Tolstoy