[Fwd: RE: [PHP-DOC] typo in the docs]

Hi Thomas! Here is the answer for you from one phpdoc list mamber Mike Ford. | > They're meanings are in some form similar, but I believe in the this | > case depreciate is the correct word. I have included below some | > cut-n-pastes from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | > (http://www.m-w.com/) for you to peruse. | | Nope, deprecate is the right one -- it has been used for many years | in many standards documents (ANSI, ISO, and others). It indicates | that a certain usage is now disapproved of (see meaning 2 of | deprecate, below), not that its value has in any way changed. | (I get hugely irritated when people misuse depreciated in this | context...!) |

| >       --DEPRECATE--

| > Main Entry: dep·re·cate | > Pronunciation: 'de-pri-"kAt | > Function: transitive verb | > Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing | > Etymology: Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari to avert by | > prayer, from de- + precari to pray -- more at PRAY | > Date: 1628 | > 1 a archaic : to pray against (as an evil) b : to seek to avert | > <deprecate the wrath ... of the Roman people -- Tobias Smollett> | > 2 : to express disapproval of | > 3 a : PLAY DOWN : make little of <speaks five languages ... but | > deprecates this facility -- Time> b : BELITTLE, DISPARAGE <the most | > reluctantly admired and least easily deprecated of ... | > novelists -- New Yorker> Goba