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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 :)

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I have wondered the same thing, often, when I had a client who always called the simulator the stimulator, and what it did was stimulation. And he wasn't the kind of person to indulge in malapropisms for comedic effect. I worked there for about nine months, and he never varied. And we used the word many times, every day, as it affected a major part of what we were working on.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Some people just seem to have a blind ear for that sort of thing. And will be quite amazed when one attempts to point it out to them.