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  • #31
    how about these?

    Effect:
    verb -> to cause
    noun -> result of cause

    Affect:
    verb -> to influence
    noun -> In ordinary daily language, it's not a noun. But technically, it's the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes (Merriam-Webster).

    Correct usage in sentences:

    He intends to effect a change to his vocabulary.
    What is the effect of using words improperly?
    Our usage of words is affected by our upbringing.
    Reading this will affect her use of the two words.

    There are more meanings to the above two terms, but they do not affect the current discussion.
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    Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

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    • #32
      It is tweak, not "tweek".
      The difference between industrial society and information society:
      In an industrial society you take a shower when you have come home from work.
      In an information society you take a shower before leaving for work.

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      • #33
        And as George Bernard Shaw would say, 'It's ghoti, and not fish.'

        Why? Because it's the 'gh' sound from 'enough'= 'f'

        It's the 'o' sound from 'women'= 'i'

        and the 'ti' sound from 'station'= 'sh'.

        Just let's all be grateful the game wasn't devised in Erse or Scots Gaelic. Or indeed, Welsh, for that matter....
        Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

        ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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