# I'll phase you but good if you don't stop that
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368 "2005-06-15T13:15:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/1 "2005-06-15T13:15:45Z")
You may remain unfazed by this. You may think I’m just going through a phase.
But it’s really starting to burn my butt to read so many people claiming that this or that allegedly startling event “did not phase” them, or, having landed unscathed, declaring that they have alighted “unphased”.
_Gentlemen, phasers at ready._
**[Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com)** says
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> Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English fesian.
Synonym: daunted, or, for unfazed, undaunted.
_Gentlement, phasers on stun._
Some things can be phased, most often without fazing them in the slightest.
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> To plan or carry out systematically by phases.
But mostly unsettling occurrences or disruptions neither do so nor fail to do so in a comment-worthy manner. Whether you are daunted or undaunted by that which transpires, be it an unplanned accident or a deliberate attempt to disrupt, you are seldom phased when you are fazed, although I suppose you are generally unfazed whenever you are unphazed.
Except this time.
_Gentlemen, fire at will._
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/2 "2005-06-15T13:30:45Z")
'Bout time someone Pitted this one. I saw this again in an article I read somewhere yesterday, something supposedly written by a _trained journalist_.
Also, those of you who insist on applying your ‘breaks’ to stop your car, try using the brakes next time. Much more effective.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/3 "2005-06-15T13:33:36Z")
And “nonplussed” means bewildered, not “not bewildered”.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/4 "2005-06-15T13:42:00Z")
Well, all I can say is that it doesn’t jive with my understanding of the word.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/5 "2005-06-15T13:43:01Z")
But I suppose I’ll just have to except it.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/6 "2005-06-15T13:46:03Z")
Hey, who axed you? 😃
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/7 "2005-06-15T13:58:48Z")
And for all intents and purposes, people who talk about all intensive purposes make me want to hit something.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/8 "2005-06-15T14:01:05Z")
People who use “affect” and “effect” incorrectly have no idea what a negative effect it has on others’ perception of their intelligence, and how that perception will affect them later.
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### Author:  [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/9 "2005-06-15T14:05:53Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> And “nonplussed” means bewildered, not “not bewildered”.
:smack: Thanks for pointing this out **Gigi**. Big time offender here!!
Another little battle won in the war on ignorance
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/10 "2005-06-15T15:18:59Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#):
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> :smack: Thanks for pointing this out **Gigi**. Big time offender here!!
You’re embarassment must have phased you so much that you feel like your standing their butt naked.
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### Author:  [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/11 "2005-06-15T15:30:36Z")
Also, you really didn’t _loose_ your keys, dammit, unless you set them free to roam in the wilds…
And you may be waiting with _baited_ breath, but I honestly don’t want to read about your worm-eating tendencies.
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### Author:  [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/12 "2005-06-15T16:03:26Z")
> [@Monstre](#):
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> Also, you really didn’t _loose_ your keys, dammit, unless you set them free to roam in the wilds…
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> And you may be waiting with _baited_ breath, but I honestly don’t want to read about your worm-eating tendencies.
**Here, Here!**
**Now and days** , people learn to spell by watching the TeeVee and listening to Hooked on Phonics **anyways.**
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### Author:  [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/13 "2005-06-15T17:02:41Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> You’re embarassment must have phased you so much that you feel like your standing their butt naked.
Owwwww- my eyes, my eyes!! Stop that!
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/14 "2005-06-15T17:06:06Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> People who use “affect” and “effect” incorrectly have no idea what a negative effect it has on others’ perception of their intelligence, and how that perception will affect them later.
It effects a singular affect, does it not?
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/15 "2005-06-15T17:07:31Z")
This one most people probably don’t have to deal with much, but I hear it a lot at work: nothing is copy_written_ - it’s copy **right** , not copy **write**. A work is therefore copy **righted**.
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/16 "2005-06-15T17:10:27Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> And for all intents and purposes, people who talk about all intensive purposes make me want to hit something.
Hitting something isn’t the answer. I suggest you try a different tact.
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### Author:  [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/17 "2005-06-15T17:13:13Z")
All of the things you’ve mentioned bug me **alot**. (I’m amazed at how many resonably intelligent people can’t get it through their thick skulls that there is no such word.)
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### Author:  [@GraphicsGal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraphicsGal)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/18 "2005-06-15T17:15:23Z")
And there is no such thing as a mute point.
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### Author:  [@Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoodoo_Ulove)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/19 "2005-06-15T17:18:21Z")
> [@Turek](#):
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> resonably intelligent people can’t get it through their thick skulls
You’re allotted one spelling eror per post.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-phase-you-but-good-if-you-dont-stop-that/308368/20 "2005-06-15T17:27:40Z")
People will continue to misuse these words, irregardless of how much we all complain.
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