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What petty hill will you die on? (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by thrawn21 to c/chat

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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] memfree 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Modern dictionaries are (mostly) descriptive, but I would rather they were proscriptive and absolutely forbid misusing words; even going as far as giving examples of why one use was right and another wrong. ... ... but... that said, I firmly believe that 'affect' should relate to 'affectation' and 'effect' should relate to 'change' and 'result', but I realize the world will say I'm wrong in phrases like, "the pandemic effected everyone." When I put 'affected' in there, I read it as the pandemic suddenly anthropomorphizing itself to literally act like humanity -- acting like it was 'everyone'.