(typo: "to affect" is a verb, "an effect" or "the effects" are nouns. You can have "AF-fect" toward something or get it from something, but that's a different word. You can also use "effect" as a verb meaning to perform or enact, as in "By punching the hippie, he effected a solution to the confrontation." But "and his affects on this country are still seen today" is just incorrect usage.)

That's good Language Police, FrankJ loves it when you correct his spelling and grammar in the comments. And I would like to add, the rest of us think you're totally cool when you do it and we totally don't think you're an idiot.

My favorite part? The de rigeur stupid mistake when correcting someone else's mistake. Where you wrote this You can have "AF-fect" toward and didn't put in the necessary "an" before "AF-fect".

On a side note, when you fling poo, do you do it overhand or underhand? Just curious.

Now to the comment I wanted to make before I was sidetracked by Pedantic Loser,

As a commenter at Ace O Spades HQ said, (it might have been Ace),
I expected the downfall of the Clintons to be much more entertaining and fulfilling.
But it's hard to get all that worked up when it means that either McCain or Obama! will benefit the most.

Sorry about this.

But when I think of Bill Clinton, I think of:

Cheeseburgers

and

Sperm

"Pedantic Loser"? You can't even point out my obligatory mistake properly. It's right there in the first line: the run on sentence. Specifically, there are two sentences spliced together with a comma. The "mistake" you tried to indicate was not, in fact, an error. "Affect", the stuff meant when the first syllable is stressed, is an abstraction of emotional value and is thus not enumerable. Oh, I suppose you could talk about the many affects generated by something, but that's a stretch.

And the triviality of all of this is why I labeled it a typo.

I can haz affect?

So I can have affect? Or I can have an affect? Can I effect affect? Or can I effect an affect? (It's funny, but after reading that both words lose all meaning.)

And the triviality of all of this is why I labeled it a typo.

Exaclty why I called you a pedantic loser.

I apologize to FrankJ for calling you that because that's not how I like to act on his blog. You were only acting like a nitwit, not a troll.

#2 made me laugh, as usual, damnit.

It must be a slow blogging day if the progressive language police are visiting IMAO. There are so many typo's here that they often add to the humor. So, LP, if you're gonna correct our stuff, do it with some funny typo's, like spelling dillweed, "dill weed."

So, LP, if you're gonna correct our stuff, do it with some funny typo's, like spelling dillweed, "dill weed."

That made me laugh.

Language Police - turn in your badge and keyboard. You are hereby suspended without pay. The Language DA will be looking into formal charges - in which case your pension may be forfeit as well.

StuffWhitePeopleLike.com did their best post ever on grammar a few days ago. LP msut be a whitey and that the Big O Bama himself would like to have a dialogue about hopin' and changin'.

Huh?

The creatively careless use of the English language on this blog is one of its most appealing aspects.

At least it's not in spanish (yet).

Obama isn't Clinton's heir. He's Jimmy Carter all over again:

1. not much experience
2. unknown at the start of the campaign (I concede that that applied to Clinton, as well)
3. wants to coddle terrorists
4. no substance whatsoever

I'm old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter was pretending to be President (I'm proud to have voted for Gerald Ford in 1976). I don't want to see it again.

Someone who lived through the debacle that was Carter's presidency will have to explain to me how he ever got elected. I mean, he was such an inept moron that (much like Obama) he couldn't have been elected on his leadership qualities. But at least Obama has the charismatic/cultist speaking ability going for him. I didn't think Carter even had that.

So please, somebody tell me, how the **** did Carter did elected?

(And then let's make sure Obama can't follow the same strategy this year.)

Jimmy .... you're not fooling anyone.... you're always thinking about cheeseburgers and sperm. j/k

Obama will fail miserably in that he doesnt have the stones to "perform" to Bills standards. You gotta admit ... the only pres to get more than Bill was Johnny K. This will be compounded when Putin has his way with Michelle (with her permission) further emasculating the testicularly deficient one.

Remember what Ann Coulter once said - Bill Clinton left the only presidential library with an "Adults Only" section!!

Thank you, TerribleTroy, for setting me straight on that. I was wondering what I've been thinking about all these years, and now I know. I'm gonna miss Bill.

14. Carter slipped in because the Dems in congress and the media had spent the previous 3 1/2 years demonizing Nixon and belittling Ford. Carter, posing as a Washington outsider, fullfilled many peoples desire for a return to old fashioned civility, honor and humility. Boy! were we suckered! I voted for Ford because he smoked a pipe. I, My father, Sherlock Holmes and Popeye the Sailor all smoked a pipe. I was in college; what did I know? Reagan tried to warn us but the Republicans weren't ready to hear it.
His crusty old Ma joined the Peace Corp. His brother was a beer drinking good old boy from Georgia (who later got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars as a spokesman for Lybia?). His daughter seemed cute. He was a former submariner. (100 hundred men go out, 50 couples come back - old submariners motto). He'd been governer of Georgia. Bad as he was, he was still 100 times more qualified (on paper) to be president. The voters hoped for change back then too. You've been warned!

I knew a girl in High School who always corrected other people's english. She had a "nice personality"...

Funny how Clinton went from being the media-appointed political genious of our time to being the media-appointed biggest liability in his wife's campaign and completely out of touch with the voters, without doing anything differently than he always had.

PS: If there are grammatical errors in this post, I don't care.

#9 - Posted by: Mayor of Languagetown on June 6, 2008 12:50 PM

Are you sure you aren't Mayor McCheese?
-Hamburgler

Affect vs effect
"What the Funk and Wagnel" is going on here?

Thank you Eric Cartman