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Re:Learn To F***ing Spell by michael_dorfman on Friday December 11, 2009 @09:07AM (#989679)
Anyone wishing to write an article called "Learn To Fucking Spell" really ought to understand the subject better.

For example: contra the article's claims, "affect" can be a noun, and "effect" can be a verb.

Re:Learn To F***ing Spell by baha_man on Friday December 11, 2009 @09:40AM (#989731)
'For example: contra the article's claims, "affect" can be a noun...'

Technically true, but...

http://web.ku.edu/~edit/affect.html

'"Affect" as a noun. Forget it; you're in journalism, not psychiatry (though you might wind up in therapy). "Affect" as a noun means an emotional state as contrasted to a cognition. "Affect" is a dimension of behavior rather than a separate segment of it. "Affect" is thus experienced at the same time that perception, performance and thought are going on. (See, I told you to forget it!)'

Re:Learn To F***ing Spell by michael_dorfman on Friday December 11, 2009 @10:09AM (#989787)
Well, it's more than "technically true" if you are writing at all about psychology (and not just psychiatry).

In fact, I just finished reading (a few weeks ago) a lovely book that was largely about affect: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity.

Re:Learn To F***ing Spell by bcater on Friday December 11, 2009 @08:44AM (#989649)
Riddled with grammatical errors, this piece makes me chuckle.
Re:Learn To F***ing Spell by tdoggette on Friday December 11, 2009 @09:01AM (#989672)
I'm a fan of the big magazine-layout blog posts that seem to be coming into fashion. It's very engaging and effective at communication, more so than an article would be on the same topic in the same medium.