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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by mandelbrotwurst on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:27PM (#27991043)
One aspect of this mix-up that I enjoy is the fact that deprecating something causes its value to depreciate, by quite a lot!
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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by notatoad on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:14PM (#27992424)
not only can deprecate cause depreciation, it can be a synonym for depreciate (in the financial meaning). but depreciate can't be a synonym for deprecate (in the end-of-life meaning).

just one of those fun things that gets thrown in to make sure nobody ever fully understands the english language.

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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by carlhjerpe on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:35AM (#27993892)
As a Swede reading OT comments on HN I can ensure you that deprecate and depreciate are not words I would mix up unless autocorrect gets me. They look similar after all.

Ordnance and ordinance I don't even know the difference between though.

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