+1

--On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:15 -0500 Andrew Sullivan
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not keen to start a language war, but. . .
> 
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Mykyta Yevstifeyev
> wrote:
> 
>> Moreover, 'obsoleted' means the same as 'deprecated' or
>> 'non-current'   (see
>> http://www.synonym.com/synonyms/obsolete/ or  
>> http://dictionary.sensagent.com/obsolete/en-en/#synonyms). So
>> it is a   problem in RFC2026.
> 
> . . .I fully disagree with that, regardless of what those
> claims of synonymy say.  To deprecate something is to express
> disapproval.  To mark something as obsolete doesn't do that;
> it merely says that the marked thing is outdated.  There is a
> useful distinction here worth maintaining.
> 
> A




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