~BrightestStar~
Blue Crack Supplier
. . .
and those 'cupcakes'
Aren't they delicious?
Do you have a problem with my cupcakes?
. . .
and those 'cupcakes'
Aren't they delicious?
Do you have a problem with my cupcakes?
Aren't they delicious?
Do you have a problem with my cupcakes?
I have myriad problems where you're concerned.
Why isn't it a noun? And yes, I know it's a bad sentence. I was just trying to think of a quick example.
af⋅fect1 [v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Show IPA
Use affect in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
–noun
4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
5. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
6. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.
Usage note:
Affect1 and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,” and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect1 means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); affect2 means “to pretend” or “to assume” (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplish”: Her administration effected radical changes. The noun effect means “result, consequence”: the serious effects of the oil spill. The noun affect1 pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry. Affect2 is not used as a noun.
ef⋅fect [i-fekt] Show IPA
Use effect in a Sentence
–noun
1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.
It's still really just the little things that get under my skin. Your/you're, their/there/they're, the list goes on. But all of this pales in comparison to the pure laziness of not PUNCTUATING one's posts!!! How much effort does it take to put a period at the end of a complete thought?
a noun is a person, place, thing, or ideaThat pretty much supports what I said except the noun part. I was always taught that a noun was a person, place or thing (thing being tangible or physical).
a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea
Since English is becoming more popular in German language some people put an apostrophe in every word that ends on 's'. We call that Deppenapostroph (depp could be translated as idiot). It's painful to watch.
. . . they scare the ellipses out of me
Here in Holland people are doing it too. We barely use the apostrophe in our language. WHY add it when it's not needed?
Johnny Depp is not an idiot!
Johnny Idiot?
or you could use them in place of letters. it's fn!Wrong.
Also, why have punctuation at the end of a sentence when you could use a smiley
See, that showed that I was making a confused face
Now I'm waving
ps - quite like that analogy of people being as stupid as grapefruits - have stashed it away for future use, thanks
i think i log on and don't give a fuck .
and i will use as many exclamation points or dots "elipses" (for the smug people in the room) as i bloodywell like.
i have enough gramamar, spelling and punctuation nazis in the real world to contend with.
and smilies are your friend.
or you could use them in place of letters. it's fn!
Liberties are taken, sure, but overall it should at least be legible
(for the smug people in the room)
I think anytime they log onto an online forum all they've ever learned about proper punctuation, grammar and spelling just gets temporarily erased.