NFT: Rediculous

Your and you're, I'm good.

Most English language practices I'm good.

But for the absolute life of me I just can't wrap my head around effect vs. affect.

who make spelling mistakes on the Internet are loosers.

has a spell check plug-in, as does most people, so no I don't make misspellings like that, but I do make grammatical typos.

I know the difference between know and no obviously, and their, they're and there, and one and won, and your and you're and the list goes on.

Sometimes in my efforts to type quickly I don't think like i would if I were emailing something professionally or proof-read as I would when submitting a paper for grading and I'll have some of those mixed up. I cringe when I re-read it and correct it. but I don't care.

and I don't care when others do it, I'm not critical of others typos, spelling errors, or incorrect word usage except in very rare cases.

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Mike in Long Beach : 10:17 am : link : reply But for the absolute life of me I just can't wrap my head around effect vs. affect.

Preach, brother.

tend to make mistakes to.

In comment 12923775 Mike in Long Beach said:

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Your and you're, I'm good. Most English language practices I'm good. But for the absolute life of me I just can't wrap my head around effect vs. affect.

This.

affect vs. effect


I have a problem with not laughing at valuable vs. invaluable.

They're both offer value, but one isn't the opposite as the other

And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.

That's preposterous!!!

You learned how to spell!

mean the same thing, I learned that the hard way"

H.Simpson

Pre madonnas

Moran..

to or the spitting image of other threads for all intensive purposes....

than have pig vomit.

After the salad, I will then eat the pig vomit, unfortunately.

of the time, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. Think "special effects" as things.

Here's a quick video from Merriam-Webster explaining it.

The harder grammatical quirk is less/few which isn't as straightforward and some think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMSVBuwJLI - ( New Window )

is occasionally leaving words out if I don't read over things carefully. It started just a couple of years ago. Getting older is fun.

In comment 12923775 Mike in Long Beach said:

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Your and you're, I'm good. Most English language practices I'm good. But for the absolute life of me I just can't wrap my head around effect vs. affect.

I think it's like this:

effect = create
affect = influence

first one that comes to mind now is "caricature."