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Comment by mikolajw

Thanks for correcting me, I should have read the interview more carefully.

>That's not how you title software. You don't say "The Photoshop" or "The EMACS."

Nitpick: The Sims, The WELL, TheFacebook are all attestable. But yeah, fair.

>The number one association most of the population of Earth have with the word "GIMP" is:

>Bring Out the Gimp - Pulp Fiction (9/12) Movie CLIP (1994) HD:

I suppose that here you didn't mean that most of the population of Earth watched and understood the English version of Pulp Fiction, or that the majority of people in the world will associate the word "gimp" with anything else than the graphics editor (certainly neither would be true), but that the second most-common association among all anglophones taken together after the GIMP editor itself is the Gimp character from Pulp Fiction.

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