After struggling with affect/effect for literally my entire writing career, I saw a meme that says
“Affect = fuck around, Effect = find out”
and now I always know the correct one to use 🥰
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The way this devolved into sex jokes THE MOMENT
@TheAdamHolcombe
arrived tells me I've truly found my people
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@chewchewpsyduck
Right??? All the very technical explanations flew over my head, but this? This stuck 😂
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@HobbitHoleBooks
His flat affect while telling the awful joke was disturbing.
Someone punched him in the mouth for effect.
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@KrystleMatar
This seriously always makes me think of the game Mass Effect.
The TERRIBLE EFFECTS of my FUCKING SHIT BAD DECISIONS got my SPACE FRIENDS KILLED IN FRONT OF MY EYES IN TERRIBLE WAYS and I'm still broken to this day
#ithadtobemeanyoneelsewouldhavegottenitwrong
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@KrystleMatar
I just always remembered “special effects” is a noun so the other one must be the verb
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nearly ten years on this app, and this is the joke that takes me over 100 likes
I love you foul-mouthed nerds
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@KrystleMatar
I still don't understand.
I roll a dice to decide which one to use and they pray
@BookwormBlues
will fix it.
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@FletcherMR
@BookwormBlues
Last time I gave an example,
@DouglasLumsden1
came and made frowny faces at me, so it’s possible I don’t actually have it figured out 😂
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