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[venta]

So. Deprecation. Do you know what it is ?

I don't mean self-deprecation, or coughing deprecatingly, or similar. I also didn't try to write "depreciation" and miss. I mean the word as used in the following sentence:

I'm afraid that method of doing it has been deprecated.

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I'm just curious. When I started work in '99, I assumed the company I worked for had just made that usage of "deprecated" up. I was most surprised to find out it was a proper word.

Edit: For people who said they guessed, you can check whether you were correct :)

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what I meant above. If two people pronounce a word differently, how do they establish which one of them is wrong :)

I have a long history of mispronouncing words I'd read, but not heard, so I tend just to ask people if they think I'm saying something wrongly.