Re: [at-l] Possible Word of the Day: affect

[Linda Patton <lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu>]

Once more (no, make that TWICE) I tip my hat to the "Other Worm."
This wonderful piece of writing has had an extreme AFFECT on my
smile muscles, with the EFFECT that they are sore and hurting!
If he wanted to EFFECT a rise in the humor quotient on this list,
I think he has succeeded magnificently, in that this post will 
SUFFICE to keep me in good spirits for quite some time.  --  Earthworm


> Now that strikes me as really affected. If you affect affection for the
> effect of iodine on your system, you're effectively affecting the effect of
> natural microbes. Effecting an affectation may be effectual if you're
> disaffected, but not if you're infected. In that case you need to effect a
> disinfectant. A fact affecting infection in films is FX, which can
> effctively affect a fact by appearing to effect it. In fact, that's the
> effect of affectation. Hope I've explained it effectively.
> 
> --Rhymin' Worm


 
Linda L. Patton, Reference Librarian, Strozier Library, Florida State Univ.
      Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047 (850)644-5019 lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu
          "A world without wilderness is a cage." -- David Brower
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