Well, I starting teaching three classes yesterday at a local Jesuit university. Though I’m lecturing for the CS department, the classes are lower division and for non-majors, and we’ll see if any other teaching gigs ensue. I had fun wandering around the campus and into St Ignatius: the huge campus chapel that’s now been converted into a parish church. Crazy neo-baroque architecture, but there was a noon mass going on so I didn’t get to see much. Later, I ate some tasty pakoras and samosas that a Indian student organization was selling in the quad. The library was nice, once I got my picture ID and could get past the turnstyles. Checked out a Scolar reprint of Bishop Lowth’s A Short Introduction to English Grammar from 1762 which is the book in which split infinitives were first deprecated. Should provide some fun later on in the blogging.
Posted by jim at October 1, 2004 08:56 AM | TrackBack"first deprecated", eh? is that the good Bishop's usage? ;) heh. congrats on the teaching gig.
Posted by: etaoin on October 1, 2004 01:22 PMNo, eta, it was mine. You gotta problem with that? %^)
Posted by: jim on October 1, 2004 02:39 PMnope. :¬ )
so when was deprecated first used? or has it experienced a revival due to coding, etc?
I think it was Charles I who was first deprecated. And I understand it was a very messy affair.
Posted by: Richard Friedman on October 1, 2004 06:55 PMouch!
Posted by: etaoin on October 1, 2004 08:42 PMeta-- Not quite sure what you find objectionable in my use of deprecate. It means to express disapproval of, doesn't it?
Posted by: jim on October 2, 2004 07:10 AMno, Jim, nothing objectionable.
the usage struck me as interesting, as the only recent use of the word that I've seen has been with html tags and the like. so to use it with an old text struck me as very clever. I liked it!
sorry that I was not clear.
OK, not a problem. Yeah, I like when you see an old usage of a "new" word, too.
Posted by: jim on October 2, 2004 04:19 PM