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Re: OT: Top Posting Vs. Bottom Posting: Case Closed!
de Marten Kemp 04/24/2006 05:05
elaich wrote:
> Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in
> news:865o42pm0v88fqu35gdv0db1ijchsi13jr@4ax.com:
>
>>If we're listing pet peeves, I have a couple:
>
> Mine are "affect" and "effect." Seems like about 75% of people don't know
> the correct usage of these words.
>
> "How is it going to effect me?" Incorrect.
> "How is it going to affect me?" Correct.
>
> "That's going to have a bad affect on me." Incorrect.
> "That's going to have a bad effect on me." Correct.
Apostrophe abuse, homonym confustion (their/they're/there,
your/you're, breech/breach,etc.), "then" instead of "than",
and the growing-ever-more-popular "loose" instead of "lose".
Plus the classic "it's/its".
An occasional error is one thing (this *is* an informal
medium, after all), but this grit in the gears of good
communication is inflicted upon us with such frequency
that I despair. Such marginal literacy, to my admittely
jaundiced eye, is an indicator of a lack of intellectual
ability which, when observed in that segment of the
population which is possessed of at least sufficient Clue
to post on Usenet, presages the descent of our society
into a morass of wishful thinking, willful ignorance and
belief in astrology.
Just my two zorkmids' worth, of course.
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