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You Won't Believe Who Is Most Effected By The Bad Economy!
Posted Sep 25th 2008 10:21PM by Ana Kasparian
Filed under: Politics, Elections, George Bush, Media, Young Turks, Video, Economy
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16. CN,
"You Won't Believe Who Is Most Effected By The Bad Economy!"
The headline uses "effect" as a verb, and as a verb when A effects B, A (The Bad Economy) produces the result B (Who). This is syntactically inconsistent with the intended meaning of the headline. Yes, the economy can effect an effect on one's affect, but that's not the context here.
Mokele Mbembe at 2:56PM on Sep 26th 2008
17. Let's get wild:
The economy effected effects on the affects of the affected. Isn't this consistent?
Mokele Mbembe at 2:58PM on Sep 26th 2008
18. "The headline uses "effect" as a verb, and as a verb when..."
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You have *effectively* defeated your own argument.
Losing this debate may have an effect on your affect.
The economy has no, "affect." But the economy has an "effect" on the strippers.
Again, "affect" is a psychological term. For example, "Chronic depression will appear to a skilled therapist in the *affect* of his client.
It's as simple as looking up, "affect."
Yours is a common error.
Captain Negative at 3:36PM on Sep 26th 2008
19. If the headline was: "The economy effected affects."
The way I would be reading it is "The economy produced affects", when I instead say that it "altered" the affects.
The way you would be reading it is "The economy produced affects", because they would be new affects, not changed affects. I admit that works too.
...but that's NOT what the headline is.
The effectee is [Who], not [Who]'s feelings.
Mokele Mbembe at 3:52PM on Sep 26th 2008
20. CN,
I know what an affect is. If the title was "You Won't Believe What Feelings Are Most Effected By The Bad Economy!" you'd have a point.
Mokele Mbembe at 3:59PM on Sep 26th 2008
21. Telling me that I've lost the debate doesn't make it so.
Mokele Mbembe at 5:19PM on Sep 26th 2008