• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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      I’m very pedantic about spelling and homophones, I love puns, and I took an upper-division Discrete Math class in college, and yet I still never realized that “discrete” and “discreet” are two different words.

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          No, I get it now, especially as I teach quantum mechanics; I just never noticed that it wasn’t the same spelling until your comment (or, more likely, I subconsciously chalked it up to a difference between American and British spelling)