Error’s with apostrophe’s really irritate me.
“He got caught cheating on his wife?”
“And with her sister, nonetheless!”
:smack:
“He got caught cheating on his wife?”
“And with her sister, nevertheless!”
:smack: :smack:
I agree.
Nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I always use inflammable yarn for my knitting because I don’t want my firefighting grandkids wearing anything flammable.
English sucks.
And sorry, I’m never going to remember the proper use of effect/affect. None of the ruberics work for me. It’s just impossible.
For 99.99999% of the times you want to use one, “affect” is a noun and “effect” is a verb. Does that help?
Doncha mean the other way around?
No, but I did write 99.99999 where I meant .00001.
Outside of the percentage being way too high, you got that flat backwards.
Usual:
I tried to affect the outcome, but my efforts had no effect.
Rarer:
To effect (bring about) a change in mood, take affect (pronounced AFFect) altering drugs.
So is this correct?
“I am hoping for a big positive affect with this new face cream.”
“Affect” is the noun here, right? Because “hoping” is the verb? It looks wrong.
And appologies for the hyjack, but my ignorance must be fought! Blame those who never taught me how to diagram a sentence.
Okay, so it should be “I am hoping for a big positive effect with this new face cream.” Thought I was going crazy.
Merriam-Webster grudgingly says alright is all right, but It’ll always look alwrong to me.
I am going to challenge someone to a dual.
These kinds of threads always hurt my head.
I used to work at a newspaper where the editor forbade us from using either word – correctly or not – in any stories. His reasoning was that, even if we were right, plenty of idiot would-be proofreaders would try to correct us.
Ahem.
Irregardless.
I mean, what else is there, really?
InkBlot
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It never even fazes me, because, ya know, I understand what they mean. Little thing called context.
OK Giraffe made me repost this here:
Obtuse is NOT obscure. In fact it’s not even what you really mean which is abstruse.
You are obtuse. Buddhism is not.
You are obtuse. Sam Delaney is not.
You are obtuse. Quantum physics is not.
God help me - God help us all - I’ve just read three unrelated book reviews on amazon in the space of fifteen minutes which describe difficult books/concepts as “obtuse.”
The quotes:
A good parent reins in their child’s behavior and does not let the child reign over the household.
A good parent might also announce a new regime in which every family member follows a regimen of diet and exercise.
I heard a local newscaster on the radio yesterday talking about some “racial epitaphs, including a swasticker”. I was outraged, but not in the way he meant me to be.
I’ve inventorized all these grammatical tips.