[Asterisk-Dev] zapata signalling -- depreciated?

Andy Powell andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk
Mon Nov 15 06:22:15 MST 2004


On 14/11/2004 at 22:50 Brian Capouch wrote:

>Folks I hate to play English teacher here, and worse, I don't have 
>anything to say about the content of the poster's question.

Unfortunately you are doing a poor job of it.

>
>But the word is "deprecated" not "depreciated."
>
>deprecate:  To express disapproval of; deplore.
>depreciate:  To lessen the price or value of.
>
>This error seems to pop up a lot on this list.  I hope I'm not out of 
>line by sending along this bit of minutiae.
>
>B.

I suggest you examine the original message, "depreciated" IS the correct word. Why on earth would you entertain the thought that it would be deprecated, particularly since you looked up and provided the definitions yourself.

Andy





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