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by replwoacause 1125 days ago
What’s up with the name? A ‘dolt’ is a stupid person, at least in the English language.
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pjm331 1125 days ago
“git” is also a stupid person - and dolt is git for data
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melx 1124 days ago
My mate used to say "git" to say something is fine/good (to him).
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DemocracyFTW2 1124 days ago
That's just the British pronunciation of 'perfect'.
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melx 1123 days ago
Yes, but English wasn't our first language back then (in ~2005).
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sl-dolt 1124 days ago
We're trying to reclaim the word
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