Re: Deprecation (wuz Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] ZZ-space and using its dimensions

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>I was just put off by the tag "Linuxy".  There is very little
>Linux-specific computer slang.

Well, I've only seen it used in this sense by Tuomas and you.
 So it acquired that connotation for me.  Semantic shift again!

Cheers, Ted


At 03:27 PM 7/16/00 +0300, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:46:33PM +0900, Ted Nelson wrote:
>> Excuse me.  MY dictionary says "deprecated" means
>>  1.  Supplicate, beseech.
>>  2.  Pray against.
>>  3.  Express disapproval of.
>>  4.  Invoke.
>
>So does my ordinary dictionary.  The meaning that was used for
>"deprecation" is computer slang.
>
>> As a native speaker of English, I consider computer slang
>>  "since 1992" to be only a local meaning :)
>
>1992 was as far as I was able to trace it without taking too much time on
>it.  I suspect that the term is considerably older (say, from the 1970's).
>
>I was just put off by the tag "Linuxy".  There is very little
>Linux-specific computer slang.
>-- 
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>
>
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