Re: CAMP (was Re: HEADSUP: Apache maintainer wanted!)

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

vinschen@redhat.com wrote:

> On Jan 22 04:02, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> >
> > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CAMP>.  Done. :-D
> >
> > BTW: I hope you all know what "camp" originally means.
> > Originally a term defined by Susan Sontag for a special outrageous and 
> > overt style mainly used by gays. We often use it in discussion on films. 
> > ("camp style" or "camp aesthetic")
> >
> >  http://www.filonova.no/konferanser/irscl/panel_3b.html
>
>
> Wow, and I thought "camp" is originally a native english word, having
> the meaning of "a place where people stay in tents or other temporary
> structures".
>
> But I could be wrong.

Actually you are right, I don't know where people come up with this 
craziness, but camp has been in use for ages as a shorten form of 
"basecamp" and "campsite".  I'm quite certain that it was in use long 
before the word gay meant anything else besides "happy".

Cheers,
Nicholas