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0 pointsderleth12y ago0 comments

Depends on the variety of English. What you said is true for the prestige dialect, certainly.

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Kaizyn12y ago

There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English. In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong.

derlethOP12y ago

> There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English.

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm.

> In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong.

Cite?

Kaizyn12y ago

Hello derleth:

"Effect. As noun, means result; as verb, means to bring about, accomplish (not to be confused with affect, which means "to influence")." http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk3.html

Affect vs. Effect: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sullivan/CommonWritingErrors.html#...

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derlethOP12y ago

Downvoting linguistic knowledge doesn't make it any less true.

mtinkerhess12y ago

I'd be curious to see an example of a dialect in which "to affect change" is more correct than "to effect change"?

tedunangst12y ago

Some people seem to like pushing descriptivism too far. "Somebody said it, therefore it's correct."

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FkZ12y ago

Neither one is more correct in isolation as they mean different things.

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Kaizyn12y ago

There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English. In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong.

derlethOP12y ago

> There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English.

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm.

> In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong.

Cite?

Kaizyn12y ago

Hello derleth:

"Effect. As noun, means result; as verb, means to bring about, accomplish (not to be confused with affect, which means "to influence")." http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk3.html

Affect vs. Effect: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sullivan/CommonWritingErrors.html#...

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derlethOP12y ago

Downvoting linguistic knowledge doesn't make it any less true.

mtinkerhess12y ago

I'd be curious to see an example of a dialect in which "to affect change" is more correct than "to effect change"?

tedunangst12y ago

Some people seem to like pushing descriptivism too far. "Somebody said it, therefore it's correct."

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FkZ12y ago

Neither one is more correct in isolation as they mean different things.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse