Post #2511961
2026-04-25 10:09 UTC
@passenger@kolektiva.social @JosJuice@mastodon.social @Craigp@mastodon.social The first, and for many years only, meaning of the word to me was the abbreviation.
I'm not trying to defend anything here - I think after being told, they should have rushed to rename! - but that probably explains partly why the backlash isn't stronger. For many non-native speakers, the word has no deeply seated meaning.
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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-04-25 10:17
@larsmb@mastodon.online @JosJuice@mastodon.social @Craigp@mastodon.social Yeah, I'd agree, but I think given the project was founded by and named by Californians who are native speakers of English (and specifically of American English where that term does have a sexual connotation) there's less ambiguity. Wikipedia quotes them as saying explicitly that the name comes from Pulp Fiction, which is why I referenced it. That may or may not be true, of course.