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Old 10-20-2018, 01:14 PM   #32550
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Yesterday someone (who should know better) referred to the impact of such-and-such on students emotions rather than the affect of - not once but at least six times within a couple minutes; I left the room.
If you'd use "affect of " instead of "effect of" in that context, perhaps you shouldn't be criticising other people's word choices.
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