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yo todd

I use the word "alright" all the time... and it puzzled both me and dictionary.com to find out from a very irate Laura that it wasn't a word. well, dictionary.com says it is, and while it is admittedly a form of "all right", still's a word. i don't think i'd get by by saying "all right" anyways. much too formal anyways

doesn't really matter :)
joelk

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Ok my peeve is pretentious people who think they are more intelligent than anyone else. Intellectual snobbery is a very unbecoming trait, get over yourself. Affect1 and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,” and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect1 means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); affect2 means “to pretend” or “to assume” (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplish”: Her administration effected radical changes. The noun effect means “result, consequence”: the serious effects of the oil spill. The noun affect1 pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry. Affect2 is not used as a noun.

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Todd,

In response to Laura's entry here: http://www.oddtodd.com/annoy80.html

1. Alright is a word whose validity is argued over. It's accepted for informal writing and it's a common spelling in dialogue, but it shouldn't be used for formal writing. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/alright Now, as for the idiot who use my computer and added alright...I guess a leprechaun or something came and used my computer while I wasn't looking and added alright to the dictionary in Thunderbird, Word, Firefox, and IE while I was away at class. (Interesting side note, Thunderbird and Firefox get the red squiggly lines in Mozilla apps, as does Mozilla, ha!)*

2. Effect and affect are both words. Guess what else they both are, Todd. NOUNS! Isn't that amazing?! I'm sorry she's too stupid to realize that. She is correct in saying they are not interchangeable, but certainly not for the reason cited. If you're gonna rip someone's grammar or spelling you better make damn sure what you write is perfect.

Cheers! The Walking Eye

*may or may not be interesting or grammatically correct
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