Timeline for An antonym for "continuum" to describe a limited set of possible options
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| Jun 12, 2011 at 12:53 | comment | added | hippietrail | As I tried to say, I accept the variability of what was being discussed but not that the author chose the best wording. Whether I as one reader can think of continuous gradient from male to female is one thing. But if somebody was writing about the alternative naming away from female/male to a continuous rough/soft gradient, then I would say that their decision to name the previous also a continuum (unless that's how it is generally described), is a poor choice of words. And I wonder how an editor or English teacher would respond. (A linguistics or gender studies teacher may react differently) | |
| Jun 10, 2011 at 18:49 | history | answered | jyc23 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |