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Narrator: MY HOBBY:
Using the more obscure meanings of "affect" and "effect" to try to trip up amateur grammar nazis.
Man [[types]]: I think that our foreign policy effects the situation.
Computer [[types]]: You mean "affects".
[[from Man]] <<tee hee hee>>
{{title text: Time to paint another grammarian silhouette on the side of the desktop.}}
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