[ExI] effect/affect again

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

It's worth mentioning that affect is a verb and effect is (usually) a noun.

Affect is about cause, effect is about the thing being affected.

---- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote: 
> On 1/4/2010 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote:
> 
> > So consciousness effects behavior
> 
> I know you get some weird pleasure out of butchering the language with 
> this word, John, but I don't think *anyone* would make the universal 
> claim that consciousness effects behavior. The majority of behavior is 
> effected--caused to occur--by reflex, habit, and other non-conscious 
> control systems (driving automatically while thinking of something else, 
> hitting a ball when playing tennis, etc etc). Presumably you meant to 
> write "affects behavior" which is obviously true--consciousness has 
> *some* influence on behavior, but not all.
> 
> The problem with playing games with accepted usage is that you can end 
> up saying something stupid that you don't mean. 
> <http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html>

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