Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)
%% Regarding Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK);
%% "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes:
>> but this practice is strongly deprecated.
egm> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
egm> Hell does that mean?
egm> Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say...
egm> dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2.
egm> DEPRECIATE
egm> I "strongly mildly dissapprove" of that quoting convention! Huh?
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary <http://www.m-w.com>:
1 a archaic : to pray against (as an evil) b : to seek to avert
<deprecate the wrath ... of the Roman people -- Tobias Smollett>
2 : to express disapproval of
3 a : PLAY DOWN : make little of <speaks five languages ... but deprecates
this facility -- Time> b : BELITTLE, DISPARAGE <the most reluctantly
admired and least easily deprecated of ... novelists -- New Yorker>
Webster's Dictionary (New Lexicon / Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition, 1988):
v.t. To express disapproval of
"Strongly deprecated" makes perfect sense.
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