From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id EAA21406 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:02:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA12858; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:54:55 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:54:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606281752.KAA08541@tenor.clarinet.com> To: Zefram Cc: Zoltan Hidvegi , zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh-3.0-pre1 released In-reply-to: A.Main's message of Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:21:31 +0100. <16465.199606281721@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:52:23 -0700 From: Wayne Davison Resent-Message-ID: <"-0inH3.0.q83.ln1rn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1467 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zefram writes: > "depreciate" and "deprecate" are both valid English words. They have > completely different meanings, and the appropriate one here is > "deprecate". The words are different, but not "completely" different (in my dictionary one of the definitions for deprecate says "To belittle; depreciate"). However, I have never heard of deprecate being used in the cited context, while I have heard depreciate used many times in similar circumstances. I believe that depreciate is the better choice. 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 common usage is moving it toward the meaning of depreciate. Thus either word is probably OK, but depreciate is more traditional. ..wayne..