On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:41:15 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:42:30PM -0800, [email protected] wrote
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:01:57 -0600
> > > Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Since this is
> > > > depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained
> > > 
> > > <nitpick>
> > > 
> > > The word you want is "deprecated".
> > > 
> > > "depreciated" is something else entirely, it's what your employer
> > > does to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get
> > > the value down to nothing.
> > > 
> > > </nitpick>
> > 
> > "Depreciated" is perfectly cromulent in this instance.
> 
>   You really think it's copacetic?
> 

I never heard of copacetic till now, had to look it up.

What a wonderful word, I feel embiggened by it's correctness

-- 
Alan McKinnon
[email protected]


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