Re: Fwd: deprecate/depreciate

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

So now I'm illiterate, by you?  I cited my source, which apparently isn't up
to your standards.  So, now you gonna do the same, or do your shoulds  and
should nevers come to you from G-d on high?  C'mon Bob, put up and I'll shut
up!

Illiterate Owen  (I speak savan langvidge, Englitch best!)

Robert Cohen wrote:

> 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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--
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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