Hard to use words

The two words that I see interchanged all too ofter are THAN and THEN. THAN means "instead of" - THEN is a "point in time".

This is what I found on Google. What is has to with religion is totally beyond me, but there didn't seem to be anything else available on my search.

The quotation is given: ""God is bigger and stronger then U" and "if U don't love God, than he ..."

The two words are used wrong here. They are interchanged. It should be "stronger THAN U". The other word shoud be "THEN he..."

This site blames "Fundies" for the misuse. (Had to look up "Fundies". LOL) HUH? What do "fundamentalists" have to do with poor English? If you don't want to be mistaken for a "Fundie", THEN you'd better get it right. Too funny!

Hope it helps, though.

LOL My fingers seem to always want to type "it's" even when "it is" supposed to be "its". Seems the fingers get into patterns of their own. Now you've got me wondering about "its" and "its' ". Seems right to me for showing possesion, but I'm gonna have to look it up to make sure. LOL Come to think of it, no, it doesn't need the apostrophe...

affect and effect gets me every time, too. I always have to look them up in the dictionary.

lose and loose gets me too. am sure there are more words, just can't think of them at this time. i can say i spend lots of time in the "dictionary".

It's like this; "desert" and "dessert" - "dessert" has more calories than the "desert".

"To" have "too" much dessert makes you fat. Get it? I hope so. LOL

Muffy, "When he "THREW" the ball, it hit the window and went "THROUGH" it, hitting the mirror on the wall."

Sunrise, thank you! I'm one of the guilty ones that interchanges "loose" and "lose". I'm gonna copy and print out what you said so maybe I won't make that mistake again.

As for "their, there, they're"... "Their" shows possesion; "their" book. Yeah, no apposterphe. "There" is a place, "Put the book over THERE." "They're" is a contraction for "THEY ARE"; "THEY'RE getting THEIR books from over THERE." Is that clear as mud?

Gee, Troy! Ya use gooder anglish!

>> The affect (action) of the medication may cause drowsiness.

NaaaaaahI don't think so! It's still "effect". It doesn't "look" right... ah! You've got me confused. LOL You had the other examples right, though.

OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooK >>> * Moves to games Forum *

LOL . >>>>.

i think that what "fundies" have to do with poor english is that a lot of fundies believe that home schooling is the way to go in order to protect their children from the views of the majority, often with devastating consequences for their children's ability to integrate into the larger society. it is a way of enforcing racial seperation and keeping popular science out of the curriculum.
i believe that many pious people are learned so please don't take this the wrong way. but i do believe that certain people embrace fundamentalism as a pretext to engage in otherwise unacceptable behavior and that those persons can neither think nor spell.
-pi

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The affect (action) of the medication may cause drowsiness.

I have felt the effect (noun) of the medication and it made me drowsy.

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Effect is a betterr word in both cases! Medication may affect (verb, action word) drowsiness. You have used affect as a noun: the "affect" of the medication...

Noun verb object...

Medication affect drowsiness...

Totally confuszled now?

> i hope i haven't bored you to death, kimmy. that would effect your health. and change your affect.

No no no. Affect your health. Or maybe you mean that boring kimmy would effect an improvement in her health?

Oh futz. It is just something you learn and get an instinct for.

Woops.....I knew I was getting myself confusilated there. Thanks pachy for straightening me out I will not give up this fight as I don't want to confusilate anyone else




sabby

is it bad that i think i understood before and now im lost?

IMO. And if I chose to, I could take exception to it, too, since I home schooled two of my boys and they're better educated than their peers. Oh! And I'm a fundamentalist, too.

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> i hope i haven't bored you to death, kimmy. that would effect your health. and change your affect.

No no no. Affect your health. Or maybe you mean that boring kimmy would effect an improvement in her health?

Oh futz. It is just something you learn and get an instinct for.

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Right on, Pachy!

I'm in the same boat with you, Rain! "Its/it's" bad.

The way I remember is that affect is the cause and effect is the result.
Affect produces an effect.
Affected by witnessing a tender interaction between a mother and child, the effect can be joyfulness

How about, the effect of the medication created an emotional affect?

I think I'm getting it!!!

So "affect" is mostly used when discussion emotional stuff of some kind...almost a feeling and definitely associated with feeling? Now that would be the average use of the word only, I guess.

"Effect" is a result of something?

For instance in the example that Echoes used, the mother had a feeling-type response and, because of that, the "result" of that response could be joyous?

Am I getting close at all???

Wow, I just figured I'd never be able to get this one and maybe I'm getting a bit close?

KD