Updated Derby Chances - Prep Recap

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Rare Bog

Much like with horse picks, there are more than a few tards in this place. All of you running to back Justrindew are still incorrect. The fact that Mawhip isn't smart enough to construct the sentence properly and get his nouns and verbs in the proper spot DOES NOT change the fact that he still intended to use EFFECT which is the correct word given the intentions of what he meant to say.

There's a slew of you that are very very mistaken.

ef·fect
–noun
1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence

Clearly, in the original post, Mawhip intended to show quitting Lehman and selling his stock options prior to the crash produced wealth and he didn't really care what happened to the company after that. Now, if you puds couldn't infer that, it explains a lot about all the other bad opinions that take place here.

Right word, wrong use. The end.

So, your position is that you know what Mawhip really meant, therefore his misuse of "effect" is not really a grammatical error? Maybe you're joking.

Once again, the original sentence was "Lehman Brothers is not hiring but I left before the collapse so it didn't really effect me other than the fact that I sold all my stock before it tanked. "

There should be zero question that the correct word is "affect" not "effect". But if it makes you feel smart to call the rest of us 'tards', then by all means, proceed.

--Dunbar