It's interesting that you're both literally incorrect from the perspective of the English language, but also incorrect with regards to the goal of the announcement. Kudos!
I'm literally correct. Look up "to deprecate" in the dictionary. In APIs like Java it's clear that you can still use the API, but its use is discouraged because it will soon become unsupported.
A deprecated API is one that you are no longer recommended to use, due to changes in the API. While deprecated classes, methods, and fields are still implemented, they may be removed in future implementations, so you should not use them in new code, and if possible rewrite old code not to use them.
