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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