Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

    Tristan, your analogy should have been based on a word whose
    legitimate use did *not* precede its use as an epithet.

According to Wiktionary, the word "gimp" has many meanings, one being
"a limping gait".  That meaning, the one I learned long ago, is not
derogatory.

I suspect that the derogatory meaning is rather new, but Wiktionary
does not have information about its age.

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