before reading this, were you aware that discrete and discreet are two different words? Do you know which means what, without looking it up?
@heatherhorns @Felthry I can't forget, because back in grad school everyone in the office was a TA for either freshman calc or discrete mathematics and so we put marked exam papers in either the bin marked 'DISCRETE' or the bin marked 'FLAMBOYANT'.
It didn't make any sense back then either, no.
@Austin_Dern @heatherhorns one would think that would make it quite easy to mix up though, because flamboyant is the opposite of discreet, not discrete!
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@Felthry @heatherhorns That's part of the wonder!
Well, only partly. The weird thing about mnemonic aids is that somehow the more ridiculous they are the better they work.
@Austin_Dern @Felthry @heatherhorns
Here's the best mnemonic I've found for discrete/discreet: https://twitter.com/CeruleanK/status/965776706501046272
@Austin_Dern @Felthry @heatherhorns
And I just remembered... @Cerulean is on here!
spoilers, misinformation unless i'm completely correct
@Felthry discreet is discrete for fennecs 
@Felthry hm! "discrete" is kind of hard to define succinctly, isn't it? I feel like there's some subtleties to it but there's some subtleties to both of them tbh
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@Felthry You can tell i'm a writer because I answered wrong lol
@Felthry definitions for words that sound the same get mixed up in my mind constantly
@Oneironott understandable, we see people mix them up a lot, that's what prompted the poll in the first place
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@Felthry I did! But I learn words differently. The fact that they have similar spellings and pronunciations doesn't make them at all similar to me.
In fact I have a much harder time understanding people when they accidentally use homophones, because I can't *not* see the actual word written.
@Mycroft We're similar, I think!
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@Felthry i forget the meaning of discrete constantly