n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-23 months agoHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down13
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-linkHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comn7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agodon’t blame me, I went to public school.
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agonot blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoall I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agowdym? right: the news affected me. What effect will the new curriculum have on the kids? wrong: the news effected me what affect will the new curriculum have on the kids?
minus-squaredefinitemaybe@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoExcept when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”). And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”
don’t blame me, I went to public school.
not blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”
all I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”
wdym?
right:
wrong:
Except when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”).
And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”