alt Hacker NewsOP: ‘Discreet’ when the author meant ‘discrete’ has been showing up in a lot of cheap pulp sci-fi novels for the past few years as well. PSA, then: the former means ‘subtle’, the latter means ‘separate’.
OP: ‘Discreet’ when the author meant ‘discrete’ has been showing up in a lot of cheap pulp sci-fi novels for the past few years as well. PSA, then: the former means ‘subtle’, the latter means ‘separate’.
Conversely, I read a lot of fantasy webnovels, and “discrete” shows up all the time when they mean “discreet” (which is 90% of the time what a normal author wants). It is legitimately my pet peeve.