From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: wayne@clari.net (Wayne Davison)
Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, hzoli@cs.elte.hu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh-3.0-pre1 released
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:57:17 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18295.199606281757@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199606281752.KAA08541@tenor.clarinet.com> from "Wayne Davison" at Jun 28, 96 10:52:23 am
>The words are different, but not "completely" different (in my dictionary
>one of the definitions for deprecate says "To belittle; depreciate").
They do have a common root. However, I think the above definition of
deprecate is misleading.
>It is interesting to note that the word deprecate was at one time much
>stronger than depreciate (it meant to deplore not just to devalue), but
That's the meaning we want.
>that common usage is moving it toward the meaning of depreciate. Thus
>either word is probably OK, but depreciate is more traditional.
No. In this context, the term used in standards documents is deprecate.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-28 18:08 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <199606281526.RAA01983@bolyai.cs.elte.hu>
1996-06-28 16:45 ` Zefram
1996-06-28 17:10 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-28 17:21 ` Zefram
1996-06-28 17:52 ` Wayne Davison
1996-06-28 17:57 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-06-28 18:17 ` Geoff Wing
1996-06-29 0:20 ` Clive Messer
1996-06-29 15:55 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-28 21:58 ` Swen Thuemmler
1996-06-28 18:04 whukriede
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