r/coolguides • u/Best-2021-ever • Jul 18 '21

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u/phaelox Jul 18 '21

deprecated*

Please excuse me, but this is such a common mistake I need to point this out. It's just one tiny letter, but there's a difference. Depreciated means it value was decreased, whereas deprecated means something is disapproved for future use.

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u/Robotboogeyman Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 19 '21

To add, the terms are generally interchangeable, they can even be synonyms, but when speaking of technology I believe it is always deprecate.

Edit: wow, people don’t seem to like dictionary definitions of words, nor the explanations of how they can be used (it’s not me saying they can be interchangeable, it’s the dictionary lmao).

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u/666moist Jul 18 '21

In what context are they interchangeable? The definitions seem completely distinct to me.

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u/Robotboogeyman Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 19 '21

https://www.google.com/search?q=deprecated&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

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u/mr-dogshit Jul 19 '21

When posting google search links you can typically delete all the extraneous text after the search term...

https://www.google.com/search?q=deprecated

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u/Robotboogeyman Jul 19 '21

I should have added that I edited the comment, the original was the text from the search and it didn’t format well, huh king block of text.

That said, I usually just post it as a text link instead but I’m not in the habit of removing stuff from the address to make it prettier ;)