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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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[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Familiar now, but I suspect that I, too, first came across it in the late 90s. I wasn't convinced it was a proper word then either.