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  • affect / effect

    From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to All on Tue Mar 17 22:43:00 2020
    Hi All!

    Answering a question asked of me on another medium - the difference
    between "affect" and "effect":

    Gage Canadian Dictionary: Most commonly, effect is a noun, meaning
    "result", and affect is a verb, meaning "to influence": We don't know
    what effect the new rule will have. The rule will affect everybody.
    However, in formal English, effect is also used as a verb meaning "get
    done, bring about": he effected an improvement in the working
    conditions. Thus, to affect a proposal means to influence it or make a
    change in it, while to effect a proposal means to get it done or bring
    it to completion.



    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/360 to Dallas Hinton on Wed Mar 18 11:18:02 2020
    Dallas Hinton:

    However, in formal English, effect is also used as a
    verb meaning "get done, bring about": he effected an
    improvement in the working conditions. Thus, to affect a
    proposal means to influence it or make a change in it,
    while to effect a proposal means to get it done or bring
    it to completion.

    Example -- my program `pamlevels' is advertised as
    "effecting" a levels transformation with the possibility to
    preserve color integrity:

    http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamlevels.html

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12 to Dallas Hinton on Wed Mar 18 08:42:32 2020
    Re: affect / effect
    By: Dallas Hinton to All on Tue Mar 17 2020 22:43:00


    Answering a question asked of me on another medium - the
    difference between "affect" and "effect":

    i generally toss the following in their direction...

    an effect can affect something but there is no
    affect that can effect anything.


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