> Holy shit. You are disagreeing with me about the meaning of a term.
I am explaining that you are mistaken about the meaning of the term. I'm backed up by pretty much any dictionary you use to look the word up in.
If you don't dispute the literal meaning of the word, but think it carries a negative connotation, that is not a semantic issue.
> Only if you want to keep everything about the UI the same except for the word used for what's currently called "issues". That's not something I have expressed any sort of desire for.
We currently have a broad category of things, these things need to have a name. You seem to think that "issue" is a bad name for this category of things, so I am asking: what you think is a better term for this category?
We can further break down that category into "bug reports", "feature requests", "change requests", "discussions" and add better UI elements to surface those groups but the overall system that manages these all these items still needs a general name for what it is managing.
Listen, I'm done with this discussion. For the second part of your comment I already linked you to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774066. For the first part, everything I can find on the topic indicates that connotations are part of semantics; it's a part of the word's meaning, after all. If you disagree with that, fine, I don't care, I have made it as clear as I can possibly be that nothing I've said has anything to do with marketing.
"meaning" itself is a broad term, but the "literal meaning" AKA the "denotation" is distinct from the "connotation" of a term. Semantics is a broad term that means different things in different disciplines, but generally concerns itself with the denotation more than the connotation. I suppose you could make an argument that the denotation of "semantics" could technically include connotation but that the connotation of "semantics" usually implies that it is denotation that is being discussed.
Instead of arguing the different definitions of the word "semantic" with me, why not just listen when I say that I'm not talking about marketing. Please.
I've mentioned "marketing" exactly once, and only to dismiss the debate about what is and isn't marketing as irrelevant. I've tried to constructively drive the conversation forward repeatedly, if I've been drawn into side discussions, it is only by you bringing up those topics.
I am explaining that you are mistaken about the meaning of the term. I'm backed up by pretty much any dictionary you use to look the word up in.
If you don't dispute the literal meaning of the word, but think it carries a negative connotation, that is not a semantic issue.
> Only if you want to keep everything about the UI the same except for the word used for what's currently called "issues". That's not something I have expressed any sort of desire for.
We currently have a broad category of things, these things need to have a name. You seem to think that "issue" is a bad name for this category of things, so I am asking: what you think is a better term for this category?
We can further break down that category into "bug reports", "feature requests", "change requests", "discussions" and add better UI elements to surface those groups but the overall system that manages these all these items still needs a general name for what it is managing.