Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore

• hades@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How about affect and effect?

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  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Effect causes shit to happen and affect is the cause from shit happening

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    • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re gonna want to reverse that.

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• ToffeeIsForClosers@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Or “the reason is that” instead of “the reason is because”?

  I have David Foster Wallace to thank for this little gift of constantly hearing a very common grammatical error of little consequence.

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