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I mean, the name is a bigger problem than anyone seems to want to admit...
Which is why I use Krita and recommend it to other people... telling them to use GIMP would get too many laughs and weird looks
Majority of area in the world does not recognize it as negative thing.
Even for English, English itself is diverse language. Singaporean English, Indian English, Asian English, definitely not negative in all of them.
Forcing one standard of language as a universal is a bad precedent for language diversity.