Mental block...need help QUICK

Now, I know that homework help is verboten on these boards, but it is just a phrase that I need assistance with for an essay that’s due to be handed in in about 3 hours. And anyway, I’m not in high-school,…so please kindly Moderater Person, please don’t chastise me for my willful disregard of The Rules. I’m desperate.

Anyway, in the context of THIS sentence:

While he briefly mentions some other sociological approaches to the history of quackery, he discounts these without affording them due consideration, and offers no alternative framework to assist our understanding.

Is it ‘affording’ or ‘according’ them due consideration?

Thank you oh wise and wonderful Dopers. And bribes will be sent to the Mods to keep this thread alive until I get an answer.

:stuck_out_tongue:

af[ford 7! fCrd$8
vt.
5ME aforthen < OE geforthian, to advance < forthian, to further6
1 to have enough or the means for; bear the cost of without serious inconvenience: used with can or be able !I’m not able to afford a car; can you afford the time?"
2 to manage (to do something) without risking serious consequences: used with can !I can afford to speak frankly"
3 **to give; furnish !music affords her pleasure" **

You’re welcome! :slight_smile:

ac·cord ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-kôrd)
v. ac·cord·ed, ac·cord·ing, ac·cords
v. tr.
To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony.
To grant, especially as being due or appropriate: accorded the President the proper deference.
To bestow upon: I accord you my blessing.

Whoa… I really have to reformat my hard drive and get the Korean fonts overwritten! I think that’s what is causing some of the weird characters that appear when I cut and paste stuff…

I believe it is according.

Thank you so very much Astroboy14. But what was that weird coding at the start?

Oh, and nyah nyah nyah to any mod who now happens across this thread. :smiley:

I’m sticking with afford! (it just sounds better to my ear…)

Buggery. Now I AM confused. They both seem to serve the semantic purpose I guess…so maybe I’ll just toss a coin.

Thanks everyone…all after Astroboy ducked in while I was writing a thankyou.

Perhaps giving would suffice.

Tris

Actually, you’re right Triskadecamus. I DO tend to be a little verbose when it comes to essaywriting.

:stuck_out_tongue:

Well, look at it this way… substitute the two definitions in the original sentence:

Or,

Which makes more sence?

I’m sticking with afford :stuck_out_tongue:

DOH!

Sense! Sense, dammit!

shoulda gone with accord. What’s your prof say now that you’ve handed it in ?

Afford is right.