![]() ![]() Notice that definition 2 sounds like deprecate. The pound is expected to depreciate against the dollar See this excerpt from the Oxford English Dictionary. Not that it has no value, it is just not as valuable as before (probably due to being replaced by something new.) We have two words that deal with concept in English and the first is "depreciate". What people generally mean to convey when using deprecate, in the IT industry anyway, and perhaps others, is that something has lost value. He deprecates the value of children’s television (as adjective deprecating) he sniffed in a deprecating way To pray against would be to speak ill of or to put down or denigrate. In fact, to pray or to pray for something meant to wish good upon, to speak about in a positive way. ![]() To "pray against" to a 21st century person probably conjures up thoughts of warding off evil spirits or something, which is probably where the disconnect occurs with people. It comes from Latin de- (against) precari (to pray). The actual definition of deprecate is to put down, or speak negatively about, or to express disapproval, or make fun of someone or something through degradation. Usually, because there is a new and better replacement. The entire English-speaking computer industry seems to use "deprecate" to mean some feature that is being phased out or no longer relevant. However, "google" was a new word representing something heretofore non-existent in our speech.Ĭommon use does not cover blatantly changing the meaning of a word just because we didn't understand its definition in the first place, no matter how many people keep repeating it. Through what's known as "common use", it has earned its way into official dictionaries. Granted language evolves, e.g., "google" is now a verb, apparently. With all due respect, this is a slight pet peeve of mine and the selected answer for this is actually wrong. ![]()
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