And "affect" as a noun is kind of jargony. Mental health professionals toss the word about with abandon, but it's not a meaning that most ordinary people know, even well-educated ordinary people.
Another of my pet peeves is "accept" and "except." Lately, I've seen the excrescence "axcept."
I think the cause of the problem in most people is a lack of reading; people don't know how words are spelled if they only hear them and never see them. I would love to make it as if TV had never been invented, but I guess that's a pet peeve for a separate topic. :-)
Back when I was a professor, I had a student thank me at the end of the semester for making him read a book. I had to wonder what his other professors were doing, if reading a book were a novel experience for him while in college. *shudder*
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Re: affect and effect
Date: 2007-05-08 04:20 pm (UTC)Another of my pet peeves is "accept" and "except." Lately, I've seen the excrescence "axcept."
I think the cause of the problem in most people is a lack of reading; people don't know how words are spelled if they only hear them and never see them. I would love to make it as if TV had never been invented, but I guess that's a pet peeve for a separate topic. :-)
Back when I was a professor, I had a student thank me at the end of the semester for making him read a book. I had to wonder what his other professors were doing, if reading a book were a novel experience for him while in college. *shudder*