inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 day agoUS agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect's Steam account, but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell uswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1593arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 hours agoaffect. You affect things. Things have an effect.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoThis is the one rule I get wrong every time
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoalso you effect an effect Isn’t English great?
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 hours agoLifehack: just use the word impact instead.
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoYou’d probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoThanks. I never really got a good grasp on colon usage or the more nefarious semicolon.
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour ago:( Ah, I didn’t mean to actually criticize you lol I was just running with the anal grammar nazi comment chain pattern. You’re good, a comma works fine enough.
affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
This is the one rule I get wrong every time
also you effect an effect
Isn’t English great?
Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
You’d probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.
Thanks. I never really got a good grasp on colon usage or the more nefarious semicolon.
:( Ah, I didn’t mean to actually criticize you lol I was just running with the anal grammar nazi comment chain pattern. You’re good, a comma works fine enough.