07-28-2015, 11:55 PM
(07-28-2015, 04:29 PM)stevebowers Wrote: I'm not clear on what the word 'discrete' means in the context of this article. The Morrigans are a discrete clade of combat tweaks; they might be discreet when they are fighting, but that is an admirable (but often unobtainable) attribute for any kind of violence.
I intended "discreet," as in "not immediately obvious."
While Grammarist.com notes "alot" is informal and often even a misspelling, I see the term "lot" used frequently at work in the industrial sense to refer to "specific batches of a product." For example, "We just had a lot of electrical connectors delivered where two connectors were oozing solder from improperly bonded joints. Was that a lot-specific material problem or is the vendor's quality control slacking?" To differentiate between "a lot" (a batch) and "a lot" (a metric buttload), I prefer to use "alot" in the latter application and damn the autocorrect.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama