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03-22-2018, 04:03 PM | #81 (permalink) | |
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Stage one: Not aware at all Stage two: Thinking of effect as noun and affect as a verb. Stage three: Understanding affect means having an effect on and effect means to cause something to happen. (That’s the overlap.)
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03-22-2018, 04:12 PM | #82 (permalink) |
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I guess we just view overlap differently. I get that they're related but origination versus influence is a very large distinction imo. Overlap implies that they can be used interchangeably in some instances.
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03-22-2018, 04:24 PM | #83 (permalink) |
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Put it this way: People use them incorrectly often but people also often incorrectly assume they’re being used incorrectly. I’ll leave it at that.
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03-22-2018, 04:32 PM | #84 (permalink) |
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Probably the most boring discussion in human history tbf.
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03-22-2018, 04:53 PM | #85 (permalink) |
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You're right. Let's just repeat semi-related lyrics at length.
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03-22-2018, 05:04 PM | #87 (permalink) |
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Idk what the factorial of sushi is, but I'm pretty sure that it's not fish.
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03-22-2018, 07:12 PM | #89 (permalink) | |
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This is one I can never get. A band, a team, any collection of individuals I'll always use the plural. Marillion are crap or Marillion is crap? Man City are going to win the title or Man City is going to win the title? The USAF has a lot of aircraft or the USAF have a lot of aircraft?
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Affectionately yours, TH. Oh, while we're at it: people (especially football players/managers when being interviewed) who BEGIN a discourse with "As I say..." No, you have said nothing yet, so you are in fact referring back to an event that has not happened yet. Toerag. Also, does anyone notice (you Americans won't I guess) that commentators now declare, when a goalkeeper punches away a ball, "Oh he fisted it away!"? Fisting is something, ah, entirely different, pal. And by the way, "statuesque defending" is not what you believe it is, idiot.
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03-22-2018, 07:51 PM | #90 (permalink) | |
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