Open dreeves opened 3 months ago
Example today:
We have a redirect in place so it's not urgent but we would appreciate it if you could update any links, so that we can minimize (and hopefully deprecate) use of the redirect!
You're not hopefully deprecating it, you've already deprecated it. What you hope is to actually remove the redirect! (Side debate: I think it's better to just add it to an eternal list of legacy redirects and not worry about how big that list gets. Even over decades it'll stay perfectly wieldy.)
Just a random dreevpeeve: Developers saying "deprecated" when they mean "removed" or "disabled". The word "deprecated" just means "disapproved of". In software contexts that's typically because you plan to remove it, not that you actually did already.
It's possible this is a losing battle but dictionaries are on my side for the time being. In addition to the non-software-specific senses, we have this from Google's dictionary (which I normally hate but agrees with Merriam-Webster and other better dictionaries in this case):
PS, from ChatGPT, when asked about this misuse of the term:
Cognata
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