We've had this discussion in the past and the conclusion was
that there's nothing bogus with bogus. :)
Move along, nothing to see here..
--Jani
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Ford, Mike wrote:
On 05 April 2006 21:22, crisp at tweakers dot net wrote:
ID: 36983
User updated by: crisp at tweakers dot net
Reported By: crisp at tweakers dot net
Status: Bogus
That last remark is taking my well-meant criticism to the extreme;
surely you will know that that was not what I meant.
'bogus' has a negative ring to it - at least it does for me as a
non-native English-speaking person.
Redirecting this to internals@ as I want to comment but don't think the
public bugs forum is appropriate.
As an English-native English speaker, I've long been dissatisfied with the
"Bogus" status. To me, "bogus" means false, fake, fraudulent, made-up
with intent to deceive; I've come to understand that it is not so strongly
negative in American English, but nonetheless it still jars every time I
see it.
As an international project, should PHP not strongly consider changing
something that has such bad connotations for a significant part of the
English-speaking community? Even if you (we) avoid offending only a
handful of people, is that not a worthwhile payback?
Not sure what you'd use as a replacement -- "Not PHP Bug" sounds good, but
doesn't really work for submissions currently bogussed for being
duplicates.
Thoughts?
Cheers!
Mike
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