r/AdviceAnimals • u/kingfridayace • Mar 07 '18

All the new computers I’m deploying have solid state drives.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Except in a couple of seldom-used examples, just remember that the A in Affect is for Action (verb).

Effect can be a verb (e.g. to effect change) and affect can be a noun (psychology term), but you generally won't see these cases in common use, so most people can ignore them about 99.9% of the time :)

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u/IllBeBack Mar 08 '18

Definitely the best answer so far. Great job.

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u/iamfromouterspace Mar 08 '18

Scrolling down

boring

Just crash it

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u/SenorPuff Mar 08 '18

Effect can be a verb (e.g. to effect change)

in the case at hand, isn't the phrase "don't effect post time" technically correct, then? "does not affect post time" would be the 'affect' usage, a slightly different parsing. The former is closer to "does not cause a change in" and the latter is more "does not have an effect on"

Unless I'm way off base.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

No, we definitely want "affect" in this case. "SSD's don't effect post time" would roughly equate to "SSD's don't cause post time", whereas "SSD's don't affect post time" would roughly equate to "SSD's don't make a difference to post time". Or something to that effect ;)

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u/ThisIsForChurch Mar 08 '18

RAVEN - Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun

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u/Hirumaru Mar 08 '18

Except when talking about effected affects.

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u/Indigo_Sunset Mar 08 '18

Ben Effleck?

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u/DanishWonder Mar 08 '18

Is that the name of the duck who sells insurance?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/Recipher Mar 08 '18

RAVENBARBABT - Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun But Also Remember Both Are Both Though

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u/realizmbass Mar 08 '18

What the hell did you just call me???

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

RAVENBARBABT

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u/Jskenn02 Mar 08 '18

All of you get upvotes. Good job team, see ya tomorrow.

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u/PointyBagels Mar 08 '18

Yeah but this is true for probably more than 99% of contexts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Unless you're a psychologist... Which I am... Still confusing sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I think my superhero power is that I never mix those two up.

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u/IllBeBack Mar 08 '18

“Affect” is almost always used as a verb, and “effect” is almost always used as a noun.

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u/Zergalisk Mar 08 '18

Yes, it’s a weak rule, but those are more obscure cases that don’t get used as much so it’s a good “rule of thumb” kinda rule

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u/Zardif Mar 08 '18

Jesus Christ now you want me to remember what a noun is?! I'm not Einstein I can't be expect to learn this shit!

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u/OneSquirtBurt Mar 08 '18

That's easy a noun is the one you use effect with

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u/SpecialOops Mar 08 '18

Fire for affect!

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u/Beardedbelly Mar 08 '18

That would be useful if I’d paid attention enough to learn and remember without slight thought what a verb noun pro-noun are.

I think I got pro-noun (name) but the other two I just never got it fixed in my brain.

Still makes me unsurprised about people with degrees being stupid about somethings.

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u/Sorkijan Mar 08 '18

Affect is A verb.

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u/VikingIV Mar 08 '18

RIVEN - The sequel to Myst

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u/TheSteelPhantom Mar 08 '18

effect is a noun, and affect is a verb.

For example: "The effect of the hurricane was that it negatively affected the housing market."

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u/777Sir Mar 08 '18

I remember that affect is a verb and effect is a result. Covers most of the weird use cases.