[AF] Tortured English of the day

[Lamar Owen]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, Rich Wood wrote:
> One of my personal irritants is "impact" as in "the legislation will
> impact the nation." Though it's technically correct as a verb, it
> doesn't sound right. Maybe I'm too sensitive when we have a
> government that governs by impact, as in a car crash.

They say impact because they can't remember whether the right verb is effect 
or affect.
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