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• Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I was saying that the change already happened I would have said ‘affectED’ past tense, which I did not.

  I’m advocating for something to cause change, I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.

  Oh my god. You’re using “change” as an object noun after a transitive verb which itself has no connotation or denotation of creation or causation. That implicitly means you’re saying that the thing it’s referring to must already exist.

  I’m advocating for something to cause change,

  Yes! That is what “effect” means.

  I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.

  Yes you are! “Affect (v.)” already means “change (v.)”. “Affect (v.) change (n.)” means “change (v.) the change (n.)”.

  It’s like if I said “This salt will really affect my spaghetti”. That implicitly says/presumes that “my spaghetti” already exists, or else it wouldn’t be able to be affected.

  I stand by my usage of the word affect, over effect.

  🙄

  FFS, I explained the grammatical reasoning, and linked to historical usage data, and linked to four different dictionaries to back that up.

  You know what, fuck it. I only mentioned “effect” vs. “affect” because I thought that was somewhat interesting and more obscure rather than annoying to point out, but if you’re going to just be obtuse about it I may as well have some fun and point out the various other grammatical and semantic mistakes too…

  “The Congress app” should not have a definite article because the app you linked to is, per the app ID, developer info, and first line of its description, unofficial and unaffiliated with the U.S. Congress. “Representative” should be plural, though that’s probably just a typo. The second “despite” should have a conjunction such as “and” immediately before it. “Want” should be conjugated as “wants” after “citizenry”, because the noun it applies to in this case is the singular “majority”. “Affect” should be “effect”, because “affect change” isn’t a thing and is actually nonsense. The clause right after that, beginning with “that’s what the corporations”, is a run-on sentence and should probably be fixed with a conjunction denoting causality or reasoning. The clause after “involved” is also a run-on sentence, and should probably either be its own declarative statement or be semicolon-delimited. The third “to” on the second sentence of your next reply needs a listing conjunction right before it. And in your latest reply, the clause after “cause change” is also a run-on sentence and should probably be delimited by either a full stop or a semicolon instead of a comma.

  Now I suppose I’ll wait for you to explain why you “stand by” these other plainly incorrect (and, frankly, inconsequential) errors as well.

  It’s funny how you started out pretending to champion political change, and to be against frivolously “commenting about it on an Internet forum”. … I should know better.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know what, fuck it. I only mentioned “effect” vs. “affect” because I thought that was somewhat interesting and more obscure rather than annoying to point out, but if you’re going to just be obtuse about it

    I’m not being obtuse, I’m just disagreeing with your interpretation of the words. I feel you’re ignoring the temporal aspect of when each word should be used. Honestly try not to upset you, you’re just telling me something different that I’ve learned my whole life about. And you spewing out chat GPT levels of text doesn’t convince me just makes me feel you’re trying to obscure and be intellectually dishonest about the conversation.

    I may as well have some fun and point out the various other grammatical and semantic mistakes too…

    Honestly, why?

    Are you so offended with someone who would disagree with you that you have to go to such extreme measures in a public forum in an attempt to shame them?

    Would you act this way with somebody at a party who disagreed with you on something?

    Does your life have so little meaning to it that this is the only way you could gain satisfaction out of it?

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    • Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bruh. I offered a polite correction on an ultimately inconsequential grammatical error you made. You’re the one who doubled down on the error, and then continued doubling down while ignoring everything I said except for specific sentences which you clearly didn’t understand.

      “Spewing out ChatGPT levels of text”? WTF is that even supposed to mean? I just quickly explained the grammar at first. Then, when you didn’t get that, I elaborated on the reasoning for it, and linked to like, five different independent sources, instead of just making blanket assertions. You didn’t understand, so I explained­— Jeez, but that’s the real issue, isn’t it? You don’t seem to like that very much.

      This is so stupid. Does it even matter? Do you do anything other than moralize down at Internet strangers about petty and incorrect semantics while repeating yourself?

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