From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:51:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4q81367.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803060914.59019.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (Peter Humphrey's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:14:58 +0000")
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'.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 6:04 [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327) mvidela
2008-03-03 7:33 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-03-03 7:51 ` Dale
2008-03-03 9:32 ` Jan Seeger
2008-03-03 9:37 ` Dale
2008-03-03 9:57 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-03 11:37 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-03-03 12:04 ` [gentoo-user] [joke] " Daniel Iliev
2008-03-03 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2008-03-03 15:17 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-03 22:14 ` Stroller
2008-03-03 23:36 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-03 17:13 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-03-04 8:29 ` Mick
2008-03-04 10:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-06 9:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-03-06 11:51 ` Graham Murray [this message]
2008-03-07 0:15 ` Iain Buchanan
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