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Originally Posted by willravel
Impact can be noun or verb. "The meteorite impact(ed/es) the North Atlantic."
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Unfortunately, since marketing power speak of the 90's, that's true, though "hit" would be the better choice. Who are you trying to impress?
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I have the most trouble with effect and affect, mainly because I'm grammatically lazy.
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I'd like to hear from the English majors in the crowd. What's the pro's take on how modern communications and changes in educational priorities have affected what's proper. Dictionary lifespans certainly aren't what they used to be.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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