n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 10 days agoHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down14
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comn7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agodon’t blame me, I went to public school.
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agonot blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”
minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoEnglish is fucked as a language. Honestly there’s no reason we need two different words for that with such similar meanings and pronunciation.
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoBasically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though – “can” and “can’t” pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.
minus-squaredefinitemaybe@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoExcept when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”). And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoall I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agowdym? right: the news affected me. What effect will the new curriculum have on the kids? wrong: the news effected me what affect will the new curriculum have on the kids?
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoYou are right I should just learn French and forget it.
don’t blame me, I went to public school.
not blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”
English is fucked as a language. Honestly there’s no reason we need two different words for that with such similar meanings and pronunciation.
Basically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though – “can” and “can’t” pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.
Except when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”).
And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”
Yep! That’s why I specified the meaning.
all I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”
wdym?
right:
wrong:
You are right I should just learn French and forget it.