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From an exhausted and humiliated veteran of the failed struggle against the verbification of "impact", you have my respect and sympathy.



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.


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.


You're fighting the good fight.




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