John Forrest Tomlinson
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:08:39 -0500, Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
<sunsetss0003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:57:38 -0700, "Bill Sornson" <askme@ask.me>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim McNamara wrote:
>>>> In article <46904876$0$30606$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
>>>> "Bill Sornson" <askme@ask.me> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Tell you what. Prove that a hammer has less impact on a table with
>>>>> no pad in place and I'll retract every word. Hell, I'll even stop
>>>>> wearing a lid! (Maybe.)
>>>> Force = mass * acceleration.
>>> "Impact". Not "force". HTH!
>>
>> Do you know what those words really mean?
>
>21st Century USians use "impact" when they can not figure out the
>difference between "affect" and "effect".
I screw that up so often I'm thinking of making this my homepage
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html
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<sunsetss0003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:57:38 -0700, "Bill Sornson" <askme@ask.me>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim McNamara wrote:
>>>> In article <46904876$0$30606$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
>>>> "Bill Sornson" <askme@ask.me> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Tell you what. Prove that a hammer has less impact on a table with
>>>>> no pad in place and I'll retract every word. Hell, I'll even stop
>>>>> wearing a lid! (Maybe.)
>>>> Force = mass * acceleration.
>>> "Impact". Not "force". HTH!
>>
>> Do you know what those words really mean?
>
>21st Century USians use "impact" when they can not figure out the
>difference between "affect" and "effect".
I screw that up so often I'm thinking of making this my homepage
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html
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JT
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