While and whilst. Not looking the usage up and I know the latter is archaic, but...
I use while to state something happened within the same time span. I use whilst to introduce a time span or something asserted (usually as true) followed by another clause that what happened in the time span or something important about what happened because of the assert.
Whilst Feliz would easily pass as a Kenyan woman cosplaying an elf with cyan-dyed skin—she bled copper—her flying saucer pilot was a whole different can of worms. The dragon-humanoid groused, arms crossed. "I hate wearing clothes."
I appreciated he did anyway. A lot. At the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval we were going to, they'd likely appreciate if he didn't. A lot.
@sfwrtr to disambiguate between those two uses of while, wouldn't although work? In your example, I think although can be placed which is neither archaic nor ambiguous about what to expect next
@luc "Though" fits generically but lacks a time or duration nuance. You understand the term "overloaded operator." Though/although is that. This doesn't mean I don't use "though" the majority of the time. "Whilst" has to sound right for the sentence for me to include it.
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