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Nah, they used the wrong one. It's not a big deal, but I like having easy ways to help remember common misspellings or weird things. Like on two axis graphs, the X and Y coordinates sometimes get confusing. So, in order to remember which coordinate is which, X and then Y, and then you have to RUN (horizontal, X) before you JUMP (vertical, Y). I heard that from some teacher when I was a kid and never forgot.
I agree that they used the wrong one, I'm just saying the comment they are responding to used the correct one :)
Ohhh, my bad. I didn't even notice that.
Wait, I'm the guy you corrected. What's the easy way to remember affected vs effected? You just told me which is which, but do you have a trick like you do for the X vs Y axis on a graph?
I don't have one for you but that's called a mnemonic
Honestly? No :( I wish I did. Maybe I could make a shitty one?
A comes before E in the alphabet, and A-number-1, the most important person is affected.
Thanks, that's better than nothing :)