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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by panarky on Monday November 13, 2023 @03:01PM (#38254592)
From an exhausted and humiliated veteran of the failed struggle against the verbification of "impact", you have my respect and sympathy.
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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by gmane on Monday November 13, 2023 @03:09PM (#38254728)
I think that one is a direct result of people being pedants about the difference between effect and affect which made a lot of people try to avoid them completely.
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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by sneak on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:57PM (#38255933)
My favorite is that affect and effect are also sometimes a noun and verb, respectively.

Knowing how to use all 4 (affect noun, affect verb, effect noun, effect verb) correctly feels like a superpower.

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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by MrVandemar on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:16PM (#38256674)
You're fighting the good fight.
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