The discussion revolves around whether tag synonyms should be shown in suggestion lists. mattdm suggests hiding them to avoid confusion, proposing that they should be remapped if typed directly or used in search, but not presented as suggested valid options.
However, Jagster disagrees, arguing that synonyms are necessary, especially for non-Germanic languages, as people tend to use and search for different words with the same meaning. mattdm counters that a “Hide tag synonyms from dropdown lists” option would be a good compromise.
Canapin asks for examples of synonyms, and Jagster provides “sandwich” and “submarine” as an example, as well as mentioning that the Finnish language has over 100 words for snow. anon65426961 questions whether the search bar is using a thesaurus feature and suggests that it should be labeled as such to avoid confusion.
That would break totally my tagging and after that no one on my language family would use tags anymore. There are languages beyond germanic ones
So I disagree. Synonyms are there because we have different words meaning same thing, and people have tendency to use and therefore search different words aka. synonyms. If they didn’t find some spesific term they don’t start over and trying some other synonym.
That couldn’t be a sitewide policy because — and now I go to harsh examples — every languages aren’t that poor there is just two words for happiness, one word for snow or mobiles or just one dialect by vocabularity — Anglos are counting english(US) and english(UK) as two separate languages (oh you poor aussies, kiwis, south africans etc…), but those aren’t, they are just using different synonyms.
Is this really a thesaurus feature built into the search bar, or the results are just showing words based on what letters are being searched for?
I can see how this would be confusing if it’s really an unlabled rogue thesaurus engine running in what looks like just a regular search bar, while that could be useful but probably best to be labled as a thesaurus and be separate from search system depending on the language.
Usually best to consult with the pigeons for synonyms: