[Python-Dev] Re: Package Install Manager for Python
Mats Wichmann
mats@laplaza.org
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:24:04 -0700
>I just don't view it as that insulting. In America it has
>become a slang term to mean something is cool; "That's so pimp!"
Jeez, I'm clearly getting old, never heard this one.
>I don't think that's going to fly... just think of a
>user manual: "Please use the pimp for your platform to
>download piddle from the Internet. After successful
>operation, click on idle to start off into working mode."
>
>Must be a cultural thing...
Hardly, it's well known we "Yanks" don't have any (culture).
What we also don't have any longer is a collective sense
of humor in the use of language (we can find _anything_
offensive), which suggests we should be barred from suggesting
names for anything :-)
The first definition in my dictionary for pimp is
simply "procurer".