Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:55:21PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> "Disapproved" is as much an adjective as "deprecated". > > Not when I went to school. English is not your native language?
No, it isn't. Do you mean "disapprove" or really "disapproved"? If "disapproved", why isn't that an adjective? Perhaps there's something I don't understand at all ... How about: "The administrator installed deprecated software. Since then, many users have had trouble with the system and disapproved of the administrator." I can see that "disapproved" isn't an adjective here and get some idea about why it is "disapproved of" and not just "disapproved". Now: "The administrator installed disapproved software. Since then, many users have had trouble with the system and the administrator became deprecated." "Disapproved" would now be an adjective, same as "deprecated". In both cases, "deprecated" is an adjective. You could also say "... and deprecated the administrator". What would that be? Are you saying it's not possible to say that "the administrator installed disapproved software" because "disapproved" cannot be used as an adjective? Same as it won't be possible to say "... and deprecated the administrator" because "deprecated" cannot be used transitively? How do you call it when software or an administrator is being deprecated, i. e. the process of deprecating something/making something deprecated? Deprecation? Then you would have to say something like "The users deprecated the administrator." or "The manufacturer of the system deprecated the software the administrator installed.". Or is there another word for this? (There's the possibility that disapproving of the software doesn't make the software deprecated, like someone can disapprove of libreoffice, which doesn't mean it's deprecated.) -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mx0w37ji.fsf...@yun.yagibdah.de
