n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-22 days agoHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down14
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkHow will the Cowichan decision effect your property title?cassius133.substack.comn7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours 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-up1·17 hours agoall I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”
minus-squarejaselle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-215 hours 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-up1·4 hours 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.”
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.”