{"id":12398,"date":"2009-09-14T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/on-being-impacted\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:45:35","slug":"on-being-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/on-being-impacted\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There are expressions whose currency is due to no good reason, but simply reflects the suggestibility of people. Let someone prominently placed commit a linguistic howler, and you can be sure that others will fall in line. The perfectly good word \u2018affect,\u2019 used as verb, has fallen into desuetude to be replaced by the miserable \u2018impact\u2019 used as a verb. Thus, \u2018Mary was deeply impacted by her father\u2019s death.\u2019 You mean her sire\u2019s demise induced constipation in the poor girl? Why this barbarism when \u2018Mary was deeply affected by her father\u2019s death\u2019 is available? Part of the answer has to be that people are lemmings who uncritically repeat whatever they hear.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&#39;Impactation&#39; is correctly used in this curious medical article dredged up from the bowels of the Internet: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/~cynsa\/cement.html\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Rectal Impactation Following Enema With Concrete Mix<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are expressions whose currency is due to no good reason, but simply reflects the suggestibility of people. Let someone prominently placed commit a linguistic howler, and you can be sure that others will fall in line. The perfectly good word \u2018affect,\u2019 used as verb, has fallen into desuetude to be replaced by the miserable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/on-being-impacted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Being Impacted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}