Merriam Webster's Ask the Editor: Affect vs Effect

[Jan1990Jan1]

She is nice to look at and to listen to.

[Stalinsurfstheweb]

We should all learn 'Newspeak'

[YoungGuns019]

Screw the English language.

[thekkl]

@YoungGuns019 You shut your jew mouth! >:(

[ummerrahh]

A future civilization will one day solve this confusion by eliminating one of these words and define the chosen word to cover all bases. This, of course, will be after the great war.

[thekkl]

@ummerrahh Or we will abandon English altogether in favor of a more logical language.

[NumbFlynn]

@ummerrahh "'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten." - George Orwell, 1984 :)

[thekkl]

@NumbFlynn Yeah well George Orwell was kinda retarded sometimes.

[NumbFlynn]

@thekkl Haha I only posted that as a humorous analog to his comment.

[URIBENFILM]

I love this woman...2

[kianjimmy]

Can someone else please explain this again!! She is EXTREMELY confusing!!!

[sleepyTHC]

wtf was that about i am really confused now

[ssbmfan4]

Someone needs to effect a website just explaining the difference between these two words.

[trufiend138]

all u "shes so hot, well spoken chics are best, an intelligent girls are...etc" would nut if she just "hi" to you...losers..in the end you dont want a ho to quote the several definitions of a word but rather one that knows several way to make you nut. repeatedly...

[thekkl]

@trufiend138 See what's funny is that you're simultaneously trying to imply that there's constantly someone riding on your dick and that you know all about how guys think...

Consider that for a bit...

[trufiend138]

@thekkl why dont u consider me RIDING on ur mom's face...

[thekkl]

@trufiend138 Well because as far as I know my mom isn't into cunnilingus.

[trufiend138]

@thekkl ....well played....

[flugeldozer]

Now this is tough. Who's hotter> Emily Brewster, Kory Stamper, or Tina Fey?

[zfair3850]

omg that didnt help

[puredoubt]

too complicated. when i was a kid, i made up my own little mneumonic device for this. simply go in alphabetical order, and say "you affect something with an effect." alpha order. easy.

[KiCreativeStudio]

Well spoken articulate women are SO hot.

This brings the term "Intellectual Porn" to new definitions.

[russ54932]

I appreciated the intent of this video, but my head is spinning even more...lol

[maximusspqr]

Intelligent women have an AFFECT on my boner.

[GLAIK]

@maximusspqr actually, EFFECT is the one you are looking for.

[XmatineeX]

@maximusspqr Hahahahaha, got it all wrong trying to get it right. :<

[hiroshir]

I'm more confused =(

[Roeshamboe05]

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh language studies are sooooooooooooooooo boring. Everything we know about language today will change 200 hundred years from now. Give me schematics and blue prints any day ahhhhh good ole schematics and blue prints.

[thekkl]

@Roeshamboe05 But by the year 22010, if we are still around, then language students will be up to date on the changes made in the past 20 thousand years. Another note is that schematics also invoke a language, since they aren't an exact model, you need to understand this "schematic language" to be able to properly interpret what is written there.

[JeffMcKnight]

@Roeshamboe05 - Hear hear, brother. The episode on rhyming slang was awesome, but this one just makes my loaf hurt. ;)

[namebrandaddikt]

I'd like to boycott one or the other. I don't think any words need to be this close, it's too confusing.

[Rhademanthus]

I know what you mean. My ability to objectively assess her aesthetically has been compromised by the fact that she knows things and can probably outstrip me in an intelligent conversation; she's automatically attractive. Damn, guess I'll have to assess her brain and think of her as a person, or something like that. Don't you hate it when that happens?

[MrP4trck]

I love the way this woman speaks!!! Her confidence must just reflect her intelligence! She simply knows her stuff!!!

[JoeDeceiver]

Yikes, are all their female editors sexy? Damn. Not a single good looking girl knew anything about language or grammar when I was in high school... Shee-it!

[thekkl]

@JoeDeceiver For me, a girl magically starts looking better when she knows things.

[roderickjacob]

@thekkl There is something really hot about a smart woman talking about words that really does it for me. There is also a certain vulnerability about Emily Brewster that I find um, er...seductive, I suppose.

[TheTeelor]

@JoeDeceiver : HAHA!!! Shee-it, indeed!

[marchofsaints]

I love this woman... Hot and smart... and I'm such a nerd for posting this, lol.

[thekkl]

Haha, goddamn right?

[marlonguitarist]

@marchofsaints I totally agree with you. I find this woman absolutely attractive, too much style I think. She just got it!

[mindlesstube]

thats too confusing.

[zwiz5290]

damn, she's amazing :D

[bkchickfarmer91]

She's so hot.

[mns983]

Good job reaver!

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

The weather affected everyone negatively, as it had a negative effect on everyone.

[thekkl]

Now do one that involves all the possible definitions of both effect and affect. You may use no more than two sentences.

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

I'll add one. What was the effect of the weather, and to what affect?