Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:14:18AM +0200, Alan McKinnon 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 depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained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.

Sorry to necropost, but I waited many a month for this opportunity, for I have
a nitpick to shoot back with:

> What a wonderful word, I feel embiggened by it's correctness
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“it’s”, just like “he’s”, is a contraction with the verb “is”.
What you meant was “its”, meaning a posession belonging to “it”.

*runs, ducks and hides*


Depreciate, for me, is basically de- (which usually has a negative meaning)
and preciate, i.e. <gollum> ”making a precious” </gollum>). ;-)
But well, being a foreign speaker and a grammar n*zi, I might have an unfair
advantage about such thing.
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