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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Affect
transitive verb

: to put on a false appearance of (something) : to pretend to feel, have, or do (something) : feign

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but also this usage was the noun form (basically a shortened variant of "affectation").

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[+] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works -12 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

You affect something and then you have had an effect on it.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

In this case, "affect" and "affect" are two different words that are spelled the same but mean different things and are pronounced differently

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[+] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How would you even know that?

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[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Context. The story is about accents.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Never heard of the word but I'm not a native speaker so I assumed it was saying "she had an effect (on the children)"

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, "affect" in this story isn't a super common word

As mentioned elsewhere, it's a shortening of "affectation", and is pronounced a fair bit differently: where "affect" like you're thinking has emphasis on the second syllable, the "affect" in the story has it on the first syllable, and even puts the "f" in the first syllable rather than the second.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Because I know enough English and recognize which word is being used based on which one actually fits

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

As a rule of thumb, that is correct. But there are exceptions to that rule and the example given is one of them.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'd argue this isn't an exception as this doesn't fit the rule at all, as neither word is being used here, a word that's spelled the same as one of them is causing confusion as it's a fairly uncommon word

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