[ SECRET POST #2421 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2421 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[mekkio]

From what I've read, the designer was inspired by the Gypsy moth. Moth = flying = plane engine.

Yeah, it seems far fetch.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. The name of the plane line was already the moth. The engine was created to go INTO the moth.

[(Anonymous)]

What do you think the moth was named after?

[(Anonymous)]

but the engine was named after the moth. If the moth was named after a pejorative that's irrelevant (and, of course, WAS it a pejorative at the time the moth was named?) . If we play that many degrees of separation we'd never be able to say ANYTHING of substance. Don't be an imbecile.

[(Anonymous)]

G* moths were named such because they were crop destroyers, just like the stereotype of the people the term was used against. So even when you pull the string, it all comes down to a slur.

[(Anonymous)]

Prove it.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/GypsyMoth_070220.htm

"The etymology of the common name is not well established, though it is likely applied to characterize the peripatetic behavior of the species. Gypsy is also a brown color that is approximates the color of the adult male and of the pupate forms. The name Gypsy is an abbreviation of the French word for Egyptian, though the Gypsies originally entered Europe from India in the 14th Century."

The part about them being crop destroyers comes, as you will see in the link, from the latin name. The stigma of gypsies being thieves is much more recent than the discovery and common naming of this moth.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the gypsies were named for the moth...and what was the precursor to the gypsies, what were they named after? See, just gets ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

Egyptians. The word originated at a time when people thought the Roma originally came from Egypt.