From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: dje@transmeta.com
Cc: bje@redhat.com, johan.rydberg@netinsight.se, cgen@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: OpenRISC CPU description
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101050153.RAA21973@elmo.cygnus.com> (raw)
Hi Guys,
: Ben Elliston writes:
: > In general, you've done a nice job. It's quite easy to follow and well
: > formatted. My only suggestion would be to remove the depreciated
: > `decode-assist' construct.
:
: One of shebs' pet peeves: it's "deprecated", not "depreciated". :-)
Interesting, why is this ?
According to Webster's Dictionary:
deprecate:
1. to feel and express disapproval of; plead against
2. to deprecate; belittle
depreciate:
1. to reduce in value or price
2. to make seem less important; belittle; disparage
Neither actually means "to make redundant" or in the past participle
"to have been made redundant", although that is the usage intended
here, and one which is feel is consistent with the modern usage of
"depreciated".
Cheers
Nick
next reply other threads:[~2001-01-04 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-04 17:53 Nick Clifton [this message]
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2001-01-04 7:29 Johan Rydberg
2001-01-04 16:17 ` Ben Elliston
2001-01-05 5:12 ` Johan Rydberg
2001-01-04 16:21 ` Ben Elliston
2001-01-04 17:05 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2001-01-05 5:17 ` Johan Rydberg
2001-01-05 6:39 ` Johan Rydberg
2001-01-04 17:34 ` Doug Evans
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