- From: Rachel Nabors <rachelnabors@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 04:45:06 +0000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "public-fx@w3.org" <public-fx@w3.org>
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Wowwwww.... spellchecker even kept turning discrete into discreet. On the bright side: I learned a new word :) [image: photo] *Rachel Nabors* Web Animation Engineer w:rachelnabors.com <http://twitter.com/rachelnabors> <http://dribbble.com/rachelthegreat> <http://plus.google.com/u/0/+RachelNabors> <http://linkedin.com/in/rachelnabors> ------------------------------ Curator of Web Animation Weekly <http://webanimationweekly.com> *Speaking & Workshops* - Mar 15 –16 SmashingConf, Oxford <http://smashingconf.com/>, The DOM in Motion <http://smashingconf.com/workshops/rachel-nabors> - Mar 22 Ladies that UX, Brighton <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ladies-that-ux-brighton-spring-forward-2016-tickets-20754994748> - Mar 31 –01 Clarity Conf, San Francisco <http://clarityconf.com/> - Apr 21 Frontend Masters, online, CSS Animations and Transitions Master Class <https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/css-animation/> - Jun 01 CSSconf Nordic, Oslo <http://cssconf.no/> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:18 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Rachel Nabors <rachelnabors@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm on the road right now so replies are slow! The animation slack has a > > WAAPI and CSS channel this discussion is perfect for. > > > > As for why "discrete" isn't working for me: it's an general adjective > that > > doesn't describe what the action is so much as color it with > personality. It > > had to be tacked onto "steps" to make sense. You could remove the word > from > > the sentence and the behavior is still perfectly described. It could > > literally be any adjective: polite, judicious, egalitarian. Discrete > means > > subtle or out of the way. Steps are steps. They don't have any of the > > qualities these adjectives suggest (unless we include "useful" ;), > > especially if you think about how this would read to someone whose second > > language is English. > > > > I'm sure we can find a succinct word. What is the opposite of continual? > > Besides "staggered" ;) I'll start: divided, consecutive. > > Oh! You're thinking of "discreet"! That's a very different word from > "discrete", which is the antonym of "continuous". ^_^ > > That said, the confusion coming from a near-homograph is a good reason > to downvote "discrete". > > ~TJ >
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