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Tuesday, 9 February 2010 (4 weeks ago)

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Discreet Illusions.
This title reminds me of a song from an eighties band. I think it’s calling to mind Queensryche’s Silent Lucidity, or maybe something by Sting. I’m having flashbacks to the awful poetry I wrote as a teenager. But my cryptic title has a purpose (and I don’t mean a porpoise, which is a sea creature.)
The title:
1). Caught your attention, if only because you began thinking, “What the heck is she talking about?”
2). Uses two out of four commonly confused words we’ll discuss today.
Discreet v. Discrete
If you’ve been shopping for Valentine’s Day, you may have noticed a lot of lingerie on the Web advertised with “Discrete shipping!” or “Discrete Packaging!” It makes me wonder if they mail the top and bottom separately. “Oh, darling, just what I wanted! Half a babydoll nightie! And one stocking! Thank you!”
Since I’ve now used up my allocation…

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