To want people to know the difference between discrete and discreet?

[Tworingsandamicrowave]

Have noticed it a few times recently, when 'discrete' has been used in the wrong context and it makes me cross.

Had me worried for a minute there Yoda. Likewise 'alright' - although I think that one is niw so ubiquitously mis-splelt that it's become an either/or.

Toadgirl I can assure you this group is in another country and they wouldn't even know about the bit of info you provided. It's just genuinely how they spell these words and more.

Splelt?!

I think I have only ever seen the word 'discrete' used in medical settings so wouldn't expect most people to use it.

However,the words 'bear' and 'bare' are somewhat more commonly heard and I cringe when I see someone writing that they 'cannot bare' their situation or 'please bare with me'. I know IAMBU?

@pigsDOfly
No one makes grammatical typographical errors, for heaven's sake!

@Lweji
I am familiar with the correct version. It sounds clunky when not being used in a formal context.

@ShotgunNotDoingThePans
Au contraire. It's about context.

@MatildaTheCat:
Mixing up "bear" and "bare" is cringeworthy but one of my favourite nonsensical expressions is: "await with baited breath". Think about it, people.

A favourite of mine is "as a pose to".

"I like apples, as a pose to pears".

I actually have a real mental block about bare/ bear. I can do affect/ effect and licence/ license and stationery/ stationary but for some reason I have to look up bare/ bear. Just a weird block.

augustus

That's a bit like Joey's "moo point" in Friends

"moo point" = only cows would care about it

This is one of the reasons why I love (the) English so much. You cant get this sort of confusion, and the ensuing wordplay, in Norwegian.

Tres amusing.

Delicate

are we on Twitter? i hope not. I can't make head nor tale of Twitter

Moo point is a classic!

I spend my life changing documents which confuse complimentary and complementary.

Actually I deliberately left the spaces because I didn't want bold! I was doing the internet "action" thing that mumsnet likes to make very difficult.

Ahhhhhhhh

No. It's

are we on Twitter?

#takingittooseriously

Maybe not Delicate. It was just a suggestion, giving people the benefit of the doubt.

Lweji

I have no idea, literally no idea what a has tag is, or why one would use one. Other than to put a hashtag in front of something you have said.

hashtagnofuckingidea

(I can't find the hashtag on my keyboard either)

hashtagwherethehellisthehashtagonaMackeyboard

I read a document recently that mentioned taught wire several times

It was a joke. I don't do Twitter either.

A hashtag is used to group all tweets that use the hashtag. So if somebody makes a tweet followed by #rio2016, I can search the rio2016 tag and see all tweets that include it.

#alt-3onaMac

Oh, look there is a
#takingittooseriously
twitter.com/hashtag/takingittooseriously?src=hash&lang=en

(yes, I have an account - I just don't "do it")

Don't be so bloody rude OP. Good manors cost nothing.