granular

[unpakwon]

What does "granular" mean in the following context? Various or delicate?

In an era when one-to-one communications and granular price discrimination have become easy, a one-price-fits-all model seems archaic.

Thank you.

 

[Barb_D]

Instead of everything being part of the "big picture," things are differentiated and categories that would have been grouped together in the past are now separate/distinct.

 

[Grumpy]

Instead of everything being part of the "big picture," things are differentiated and categories that would have been grouped together in the past are now separate/disctinct.

Typo.

[I have my anal, nit-picking hat on today]
[nb the essential comma in the foregoing!]

 

[Tdol]

...dis[strike]c[/strike]tinct

Typo.

[I have my anal, nit-picking hat on today]
[nb the essential comma in the foregoing!]

You're going to need a bigger hat. ;-)

 

[5jj]

I'd put the comma after the second quotation marks. The whole of "big picture", including the quotation marks, is part of the first clause

 

[Barb_D]

Americans put commas inside quotation marks. Doesn't always make sense. But we do. I really miss my computer with spell check.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I'd put the comma after the second quotation marks. The whole of "big picture", including the quotation marks, is part of the first clause

I usually favor the BrE use of quotation marks. AmE usage was determined by printers whose reasons have long since vanished.

 

[Barb_D]

I understand the logic but I'm a writer and I follow the prescribed styles guides. I have no desire to unlearn it for this place and relearn it for the work I'm paid to do.

I totally agree with the British usage, but I don't follow it.

 

[5jj]

Instead of everything being part of the "big picture," things are differentiated and categories that would have been grouped together in the past are now separate/distinct.

Is this the American practice even when you are merely highlighting words rather than actually quoting them?

 

[Barb_D]

Logical or not (and we'll all agree it's not), the comma goes inside the quote mark every single time.