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Apparently "discrete" and "discreet" are different words (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I always thought discreet was just a different way of spelling discrete, used by the same type of person who'd write wierd instead of weird, but apparently discreet and discrete are "supposed to" mean different things, a "discrete quantity" vs "discreet packaging".

I reject this notion and will continue to spell either sense as discrete. Both are from Old French discret, both are pronounced the same, both were spelled the same in Middle English, and discretion is still spelled the same for either meaning, so there is absolutely no reason why discrete and discreet should be spelled differently, other than to personally confuse me. There are enough people who confuse the two spellings as to make the written distinction between discrete and discreet absolutely useless.

Yes, I'm going to intentionally misspell a word because it annoys me. You should do the same for any words that you dislike the spellings of. Who's gonna stop us‽

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

hahaha I was being completely unserious but if a man knows the difference and doesn't seem math/language inclined I'd be willing to bet they've used grindr at some point specifically because that is one of the profile tags. Not trying to read into it too much because I was mainly joking but come to think of it, there is also an argument I could make from personal experience that 'straighter' men tend to default to spelling it as discrete when they mean discreet (i say straighter because lets be real, if you're on grindr looking for some ass you're nowhere near it - but it is always the blank profiles with the 'discrete - never tried this before.....will send pics only if you verify you're not within 6 degrees of knowing anyone i interact with' type of bios that spell it wrong......)

have typed too much about this now and am judging myself what have you DONE oooaaaaaaauhhh