RIP , photojournalist James Foley

[mrlynn]

Thanks, Eustace, for (intentionally or not) diverting this thread from the vicious labeling of anyone who disagrees with our erstwhile President a 'racist'—a deliberate and thoroughly reprehensible misuse of the language.

/Mr Lynn

[$tevie]

It's one thing to disagree politically. It's another thing to complain about golf games and vacation days. If you can't figure out the difference you have probably lost your sense of perspective.

I have yet to see one post on this thread with a credible, mature reason why the President should drop everything and fly to DC as a result of Foley's death. All I see is how lousy his golf game is and what a lazy person he is. Stuff that a fifth grader would write.

[DeusxMac]

eustacetilley wrote:
I was referring to the nauseating tendency of Code Monkeys to use the word "deprecate" to merely indicate old or no longer supported software.
To say "Version 3.1.1 has been deprecated, update to Version 3.2.2." is just thoroughly wrong. To say "Version 3.1.1 has been depreciated and will no longer be supported" is better, but not by much.
To say "Version 3.1.1 was just bloody awful. Don't use it." conveys the right use of "Deprecate", without actually using the word.

(tu)
I'm trying to educate our coders to use the word "superseded"; as in "Version 3.1.1 has been superseded by Version 3.2.2." A vastly more appropriate word for their intended meaning.

supersede
verb [ with obj. ]
take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant: the older models have now been superseded.

[eustacetilley]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=eustacetilley]
I was referring to the nauseating tendency of Code Monkeys to use the word "deprecate" to merely indicate old or no longer supported software.
To say "Version 3.1.1 has been deprecated, update to Version 3.2.2." is just thoroughly wrong. To say "Version 3.1.1 has been depreciated and will no longer be supported" is better, but not by much.
To say "Version 3.1.1 was just bloody awful. Don't use it." conveys the right use of "Deprecate", without actually using the word.

(tu)
I'm trying to educate our coders to use the word "superseded"; as in "Version 3.1.1 has been superseded by Version 3.2.2." A vastly more appropriate word for their intended meaning.

supersede
verb [ with obj. ]
take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant: the older models have now been superseded.
Thank you.
Wordfriendly doubleplus excellent.

Supersede is not only a worthy word in and of itself, but it has a very long and worthy wordy history. Tear the roots apart, and it means "go beyond" "what you are sitting on". (Or words to that effect.)

I do hope that you start a trend, (Google has already catalogued this.), and "Deprecate" in Software terms goes the way of "23 Skidoo". (Nobody actually really knew what that meant either, at the time. It was an address for either a Speakeasy, or a Bordello, on 23rd Street, in Manhattan. The locations referred to were frequently the same. P. G. Wodehouse popularized the term, keeping the seamier elements to be guessed at, at leisure, over a Gin and Tonic.)

Eustace

[neophyte]

Can we start a new thread about proper word usage? I nominate the improper inter-substitution of the words various and varying.

[$tevie]

Yes, I think a new thread would make more sense. This thread is just vying for "longest thread" status and it's not really the place for an interesting conversation.

[Lux Interior]

swampy wrote:
Okay, let's start with Obama's Greek columns.

Oh! Oh! And don't forget the "Muslim prayer drapes"!!!!!!!!111!!

[$tevie]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=swampy]
Okay, let's start with Obama's Greek columns.

Oh! Oh! And don't forget the "Muslim prayer drapes"!!!!!!!!111!!
This sort of nonsense has given every anti-Obama utterance of the right wing a very "Boy Who Cried Wolf" quality. It is said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but who is going to hear any of these rumor-mongers, even if one of their tales is true, through all the noise they have created over the years? If they hadn't wasted all their time on birth certificates and Kenya and socialism and the sort of junk as noted above, maybe they would have some teeny weeny shred of credibility left.

[eustacetilley]

$tevie wrote:
Yes, I think a new thread would make more sense. This thread is just vying for "longest thread" status and it's not really the place for an interesting conversation.

You and neophyte are quite right: reasoned discourse, facts, bad puns, etymology, the "Classical Orders", actually understanding what the words being used actually mean- none of these have any business being on this side.
My apologies.

Eustace
Eustace Tilley is a lout, he wears his socks inside out.
Prolix prose, far too silly- pay no mind to Eustace Tilley

[$tevie]

I didn't say this "side", I said this "thread".