Re: Fwd: deprecate/depreciate

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Uh, I don't get the Certs reference.  Yes, "deprecate" has, by repeated 
mis-usage, now come, lexicographically, to mean "depreciate" as an 
additional meaning, but no good writer or speaker should use it that way!  
Deprecate comes from same root as "imprecation," means to curse.  
"Depreciate" is opp. of "appreciate":  to increase in value (like a stock) 
or value highly.  So "depreciate"=to decrease in value (like a stock); 
disparage or belittle.  So it's always (or shd always be) 
"self-depreciating," not "self-deprecating" humor.  Whereas, I hurl 
imprecations at those who use the one word to mean the other. Is everybody 
happy?--or, at least, better informed (he says snottily, but not 
self-depreciatingly)?


>From: Owen Davidson <owend (at) tp(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Is this Yiddish legal?
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:58:15 +0000
>
>dep-re-cate ...3. to depreciate, belittle
>
>-Random House Webster's College Dictionary
>
>And Certs is a candy mint, too!
>
>Owen
>
>Robert Cohen wrote:
>
> > _I_ think this is priceless!  But it's "depreciate," not
> > "deprecate"--illiterates!! (in English!)
> >
>
>--
>Owen Davidson
>Amherst  Mass
>The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>
>The Angel that presided o'er my birth
>Said Little creature formd of Joy and Mirth
>Go Love without the help of any King on Earth
>
>Wm. Blake
>
>
>


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