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You called me a hack because you disagree with one word choice and you think I'm the asshole? That's funny.

 

Bingo!

 

Ok, pretty well played.

 

I stumble into one on occasion.

 

Apologies, then; you're not a hack. ... You're a lazy hack. ... But I guess that sailed over your head!

 

Affect is a verb?

Taking notes here.

 

lol. ... But, yes. Almost always.

"Effect" is usually a noun. But sometimes a verb.

And, to recap, "impact" is a damn good noun: BAMM!

 

Especially among the Latin hard-on set, for whom "affect" is also sometimes a noun!

 

Oh bother! I give up.

I'll just be a hack like @outofplace. Impact it is! Noun, verb, who cares? It works great either way.

(Maybe I'll try to work in influence from time to time. Just a verb, or can I use it as a noun too, without being a hack?)

 

This now is settled law. Go forth and hackify!

 

OK, I've fallen behind on this thread and am kind of reading it backwards now (does everybody do that? I've always kind of wondered).

Anyway, I'd never heard that saying by Buffet but I have to say, that is some great descriptive talking/writing. I love it.