To: Smokin' Joe
To this day I refuse to use "impacted."
I wish people would stop turning every word into a verb.
"Progress" wasn't a verb until about 1900.
244 posted on
08/30/2015 1:17:45 PM PDT by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
To this day I refuse to use "impacted." I will use it, but only when talking trouble with wisdom teeth.
249 posted on
08/30/2015 1:22:01 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: LS
Yeah, “impacted” is pretty dorky. Another one along those lines is “utilized” instead of “used”.
To: LS
‘To this day I refuse to use “impacted.”’
I think that’s because they don’t know which of “affect/effect” to use!
It should not be “impacted”, it should be “affected”.
I say this with extra chagrin since I am an engineer and “impact” is a very specific situation - i.e., a noun.
260 posted on
08/30/2015 1:38:10 PM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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