On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:51 +0000, Graham Murray wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> If I love you, what business is it of yours? -- Johann van Goethe -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list