GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and GNU stands for GNU’s Not UNIX and UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information and Computing Service so the full proper name for GIMP is actually:
GNU’s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program
@wakest Open source is cancelled
@wakest and you can keep going
@sl2c wait how please explain!
@wakest what does GNU stand for 😉
@sl2c that doesn’t explain how I can keep going.
With a fixed recursion limit of 2, you get:
GNU’s Not UNIX's Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program
@clacke wait why is it inconsistent? I think I may be missing something.
@clacke GIMP, GNU, UNIX are all acronyms and they are the only acronyms in side the name of GIMP (that I can see) so it feels fully consistent to me to unpack them all.
You unpacked GNU, and then within GNU you only unpacked UNIX and not GNU. That's what I got hung up on. But I take back the idea that your limit was arbitrary and inconsistent. It actually follows the rule "expand everything until we reach a loop". So we're good. 😀
@clacke hmm I think I follow what your saying but cant think of a different way to unpack the name cause indeed there are multiple levels of recession. you cant include GIMP in the unpacked version but you sort of have to include GNU cause otherwise there would be no G in at all. and UNIX isnt recursive so you can unpack it fully.
Your unpacking is the best one, I just didn't find a consistent way to describe it until I finally did.
Of course one fun way to unpack it would be:
<error: infinite recursion encountered>'s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program
food
@wakest I could have sworn it was Green Is My Pepper
@wakest try with GTK
@wakest
When you know that initially GTK stood for GIMP toolkit... 😂
Hugh
@wakest LAME stands for LAME |: Ain't an Motion Picture Experts Group Layer 1 Level 3 Audio Encoder :|
@wakest By the way, do people understand those musical repeat signs, and get that I meant repeat forever as opposed to just once? Could be useful, e.g. |:a:| for endless screaming...
@wakest No wonder my wife hates the name.
@wakest @codesections We can recurse infinitely and it still would only approach the full proper name! ^^
@anathem @wakest @codesections the True Name is a word of such power that it cannot be spoken aloud; to understand it is to grasp the Infinite
@wakest A B S T R A C T I O N
@wakest GTK+ stands for GIMP Tool Kit. ...
@wakest I also recently learned that UNIX is a diminutive of MULTICS, but that doesn't fit in the abbreviation
@wakest えぇー（困惑）
@wakest Das erklärt dann wohl die intuitive Bedienung. ;-)
@wakest I'm gonna run a workshop on graphic design called GNAGT: GNAGT is Not A GIMP Tutorial.
@sydneyfalk @wakest ye but what does the G stand for
@wakest GNU's Not Unix's Not Unix's Not Unix's Not Unix
@wakest Thanks, I hate it.
@wakest This is a major reason why free software has a hard time being taken seriously by the general public.
@wakest I like
...GNU’s Not GNU’s Not GNU’s Not GNU’s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program myself :P
@wakest or short: GNUICSIMP, not to be confused with GNU ics implementation!
@wakest I thought GNU stood for "GNU's not usable" though 🤔
@wakest and GIMP uses GTK which used to be known as "GIMP Toolkit".
Or:
GNU’s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program Toolkit
👍🏾
@wakest GNU’s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Network Object Model Environment, or GNOME for short.
@wakest
We need to go deeper.
GTK is gimp tool kit.
@wakest so what does GTK stand for
@wakest
wow, so many words...
In german we would have just one word for that.
@wakest My brain is now broken, thx. 💀
@wakest
Actually it's, THE GIMP, so it's
The GNU’s Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program
@wakest @ink_slinger It’s kinda catchy.
@wakest how about GIMP's Spanish name, la programa de manipulación de imágenes de GNU
@Lumi best response yet. you should unpack this whole joke in spanish that would be awesome.
@wakest x3 my Spanish isn't good enough yet I'd love to though
@tomas !? this is bizarre.
@wakest
wow, this beats out my previous fave,
Performance Optimized With Enhanced Reduced nstruction set computing Personal Computer
@minx omg this is great.
I got stuck in the GNU recursion.
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@wakest thanks @ricky for posting something about GIMP that made me think of this dumb joke.