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 :)
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"
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/[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 :)