I just discovered that 'discreet' and 'discrete' are two completely different words with completely different meanings.
discreet - 'judicious, prudent, showing discernment,'
discrete - 'detached, separate' and 'individually distinct'
How ridiculous.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
English is a Messed Up Language
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I know about discreet, but never heard of discrete.
which one did you want to use?
I only knew about discreet, but I would have spelled it discrete. In my accounting book it talked about 'discrete units' and I was confused. I thought it was saying there were secret or private units, when it was really trying to say they they were distinct units.
I only new about discrete
I knew about both definitions, but I hadn't realized that they were spelled differently
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