%% Regarding Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK); %% "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes:
>> but this practice is strongly deprecated. egm> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ egm> Hell does that mean? egm> Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say... egm> dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2. egm> DEPRECIATE egm> I "strongly mildly dissapprove" of that quoting convention! Huh? Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary <http://www.m-w.com>: 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> Webster's Dictionary (New Lexicon / Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition, 1988): v.t. To express disapproval of "Strongly deprecated" makes perfect sense. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.