Learn To F***ing Spell

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.

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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!)'

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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.

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