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Old April 4th, 2009 #210
Marse Supial
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
I would say you affected my thinking about jews if you brought up facts I was not aware of, but no fundamental change in my belief about them. But if you turned my view of them from fundamentally positive to negative, then you effected a change in my thinking. In math terms, if I am proceeding left to right, and you turn me more than 90 degrees, you have effected a change. But if you've influenced me less than 90 degrees, you have affected my thinking - influenced but not changed.

That's as good an explanation as I've heard discussing the verb sense of those two words.

In the noun sense, as I understand it, it's always effect.

Said differently, affect and effect can both be verbs, but only effect can be a noun.

Right?