Jason

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• Commented on Deprecated not depreciated
  EDIT: Meant to say "prohibits its use to ONLY finance" in paragraph one....
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  The transitivity of depreciated is irrelevant and not a valid defense of the use of deprecate in the context of software. You can most certainly say a module _has_ depreciated. This would indeed imply that it is not recommended. It...
• Commented on Deprecated not depreciated
  Deprecate vs Depreciate - why I am right, and the rest of the computer industry is emphatically and consistently wrong. :) A blog or what you will... Since I was 4, my Grandmother used to play Scrabble with me. This...

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• Aristotle commented on Deprecated not depreciated

  First of all, pay attention to the usage examples in the very definition you quoted:

  • “he deprecates the value of children’s television”
  • “the pound is expected to depreciate against the dollar”

  “To depreciate” is intransitive; “to deprecate” is transitive. Depreciating is something a thing of value does, by itself; deprecating is stance someone takes towards something.

  The contested usage is saying that “module X is depreciated”. By the given dictionary definitions this is clearly incorrect, no ma…

• suspendedlight commented on Deprecated not depreciated

  @Jason you are my legend, I created an account to post this! The articles claiming deprecated was the correct use for Software nearly had me doubting myself!! Thanks for the clear breakdown and analysis, you legend!

• Paul Johnson commented on Deprecated not depreciated

  Great. So now that's sorted perhaps we can move on to letting people know that "performant" isn't a word.

  
  OK, yes, it is, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.