From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released
Date: 20 Feb 2003 21:57:32 +0000
Date: 2003-02-20T21:57:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7vvfzek437.fsf@smaug.pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b310uk$3l2$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> 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.
The thing is, the Java word for what you want to do is "deprecate" (my
dictionary says "to argue earnestly agains some evil", whereas I think
Ken's intent was to just mark an interface as to be avoided). I didn't
know "depreciate" had a transitive use at all (to undervalue or
disparage).
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2003-02-20 21:57 ` Simon Wright [this message]
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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