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Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.
Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.
Thanks for this actually, I didn't know
Dampening is making things -wet- ...
moist, or slightly wet.
The meaning of this word stops short of "drenching/dousing something".
One might even say that dampening is making things damp!
Finally someone who understands. I see this mistake everywhere made even by supposedly intelligent people.
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. People can be ignorant about a topic and still be intelligent.
Similarly, something being deprecated & something being depreciated.
In our nightmare world where fame is money, being deprecated IS being depreciated!
I am happy for not having seen this mistake.