atw: Re: OT: Effect and Affect (Was Versing+impact)

Just to confuse everyone further, "affect" can be a noun, meaning "a feeling 
or emotion as shown or described by a patient".  (Example usage:  "Initially 
Jennifer presented a rather robotic picture to her therapist. Her affect was 
flat and her speech was mechanical, as were her bodily movements.") 

And!  "effect" can be a verb, meaning "to bring about often by surmounting 
obstacles, accomplish <effect a settlement of a dispute>, to put into 
operation". 

Mnemonic?  Can't help you there.  I just pounded them into my head as many 
times as it took for them to stick.  But if you google it, you'll find tons 
of pages agonising about it.... 

 -- Laura 

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