Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:51 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> writes:
> 
> > It's another euphemism progress, like water-closet > lavatory > bathroom > 
> > rest-room etc. (I've probably missed some links in that chain). Someone 
> > dislikes an aspect of the original word - "fault" in this case - and 
> > euphemises it to "problem", then that becomes tainted with the original 
> > association and it gets downgraded again to "issue". Anyone want to 
> > speculate what will come next?
> 
> It already has. I have heard bugs and unexpected behaviour referred to
> as 'features'.

that's been a long standing joke "it's not a bug, it's a feature".  We
use it all the time (but not to customers).

What really comes next is: Ticket.

That's right, you no longer have a bug, problem, or issue.  You just
have a ticket number.  Your email has automatically been assigned the
ticket number 12345...

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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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