[ SECRET POST #2421 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2421 ⌋

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Comments

DA

[(Anonymous)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Gipsy

History of the engine. It was created for a light biplane line known as the "moths". Both the plane and the engine were designed by the same guy. When the plane and the engine are put together, they become the Gipsy Moth. I can't be sure, and De Havilland is long dead, but I'm going with occam's razor here and saying named after the beastie.

Now, if the MOTH got its name from the Romany people, and why, I don't know. But by then we're playing 20 degrees of separation and it becomes completely silly.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure why you think that it's less offensive if the name is 2 or 4 steps away from the Romani.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Because that's the way etymology and linguistics works. Words become divorced from their literal meaning.

They Gypsy Moth was so named because of its nomadic nature, not because of any bad feelings towards the Romany.

As another anon pointed out above, look at bastard: It started off as a word describing a child born out of wedlock. Then that was associated with negative people. But then people forgot the original meaning and bastard just means a bad person and nobody things twice about it. And that's the SAME WORD. Gypsy Moth is a word completely divorced from the original meaning, and was never meant in a prerogative fashion. The Gipsy engine was built and named for the moth, FURTHER divorcing it from the original meaning. And the robot was built and named after the engine. It has zero to do with Romany anymore.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

*applauds*
Thank you.
This is really all that needs to be said.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Wish I'd said it with a few less typos. :)

Re: DA

[tabaqui]

Gypsy Moth - 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.