From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:08 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-02-19T22:37:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b310uk$3l2$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E53FCE9.9C4E7273@sympatico.ca
Ken O. Burtch <kburtch@sympatico.ca> wrote:
:
: I asked around. It appears that "depreciate" might be a Canadian
: regionalism. I had never heard of "deprecate" until this post.
:
FWIW, my dictionaries have an entry for each of them, apparently
deprecate is formal and means saying no! for moral reasons,
whereas depreciate means turning ones nose up at something because
it's worth it.
My 2 Euro cent (continental, add grains of salt :-)
georg
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2003-02-15 1:22 ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released Ken O. Burtch
2003-02-15 12:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-02-17 21:45 ` Ken O. Burtch
2003-02-16 2:16 ` Eric G. Miller
2003-02-17 21:44 ` Ken O. Burtch
2003-02-19 21:53 ` Ken O. Burtch
2003-02-19 22:37 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2003-02-20 21:57 ` Simon Wright
2003-02-20 3:52 ` Christopher Browne
2003-02-20 10:09 ` Ken Thomas
2003-02-20 14:03 ` Britt Snodgrass
2003-02-23 21:06 ` Faust
2003-02-24 6:26 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-02-24 19:52 ` Christopher Browne
2003-02-25 18:37 ` BUSH on SourceForge Ken O. Burtch
2003-02-26 8:19 ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-27 16:05 ` Ken O. Burtch
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2003-02-20 11:10 ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released Lionel.DRAGHI
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