On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Rachel Nabors <rachelnab...@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