From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXEd2-000348-8m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:51:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1936AE0771; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6E9E0771 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (graham@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m26BpCP3014261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:51:12 GMT X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.5.0.Beta11 newton.gmurray.org.uk m26BpCP3014261 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1204804272; bh=FmfHsT3VOVFd8AC0+mkifa6nsRBmKrWoj5dgs/ PQjrE=; l=553; h=X-Authentication-Warning:From:To:Subject: References:X-Hashcash:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=MotVKcmWJPfE25FuqWlEs9T2zL3HtythB/pzZ mp4QebAkWkjqWIwCmCHMlmeAMGfU1WLz+WkY7K/5iB7DQ/AD1WfeFZk50wsMmrumPxW KmZaDNH6sHPHZ8CVk0YQ9ChmPd/CtGHXIqP589D2emHp1qKyW4JbnuAthuT4nyQ1KRE = Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m26BpC5o014260; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:51:12 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327) References: <20080303060451.12984.qmail@vh0.comintec.net> <200803040829.03946.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20080304101939.17f05081@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <200803060914.59019.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Hashcash: 1:22:080306:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org::HZiSjQuztcojJPxY:000000000000000000000000000000000nj6w Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:51:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200803060914.59019.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (Peter Humphrey's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:14:58 +0000") Message-ID: <87d4q81367.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 7121054a-ccdf-46af-9e3d-f5c325e8dd13 X-Archives-Hash: 0cc4a842824783877915aac0489abe3d Peter Humphrey 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'. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list