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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