[ SECRET POST #2097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2097 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 129 secrets from Secret Submission Post #300.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

19. http://i.imgur.com/q5gO3.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I get it. They sound different (at least in quite a few of the accents in my area) and that makes the mistake seem silly. Plus, it's really hard to have a typo that gives you the wrong one, so it seems like the lack of knowledge is obvious. And they're easy words.

/I guess I have more feelings about this than I thought

[(Anonymous)]

Wait...there are people who actually mix those two up?

Wow. That's incredibly bizarre to me, and I can see why it would bother you so greatly.

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect the OP made a typo and meant EXCEPT/accept, not expect/accept.

[(Anonymous)]

I have my Master's Degree in English. I never mix up their, there, and they're. Or your/you're, or it's/its. But I'll be damned if I ever get effect/affect right. Where I'm from, they sound exactly the same so I never know which one I want.

Scurrying off to hide now.

[(Anonymous)]

Affect is Action! Effect as a verb means "to create an effect," like "to effect change." Affect as a noun means manner or tone, like "flat affect" when a person doesn't have much expression. But that one's also pronounced differently, "AF-fect." Otherwise affect is always the verb and effect is always the noun!

[(Anonymous)]

Effect is generally used as a noun. Affect is almost always a verb.

/shrug

I can never keep them straight either, but as long as I know whether I'm looking for a noun or verb, I can make an educated guess that is only wrong like 0.1% of the time.

[diet_poison]

They're still spelled differently and used differently in writing. Not judging you, just saying...it's not all about how they sound (the other examples you gave are also homonyms).

This is where a good beta comes in handy, because people make mistakes and it's ok to not be perfect at conventions. But it's a good idea to have it proofread.

[ariakas]

"Affect/effect" sound the same in your accent?

Huh.

Does that mean "effluent" and "affluent" sound the same too? Neat.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG It's me again. You'd think having studied English, I could have read this secret. Of course I know the difference between except/accept!!! Or expect/accept? Either way, I failed to read the secret correctly.

Affect/effect will haunt me to my grave. And I do have the world's best beta who kindly points out every time I do it wrong.

[szarburus]

effect/affect gets me every time. I always have to sit and think about it for a few seconds before I can work out which one it is.

[(Anonymous)]

The one that kills me is lose / loose. IF I DO NOT WIN SOMETHING I AM NOT A LOOSER THAT DOES NOT EVEN MAKE SENSE

why do people make this mistake they don't even sound similar aaaaaaaaaagh it drives me crazy

[(Anonymous)]

I share your pain. The other mistake that's been bugging me lately is 'alright.' It's not even a word! Yes, English is a living language, blah blah blah; I don't care. 'Alright' hurts my soul every time I see it.

[(Anonymous)]

The only times I see them mixed up is when English isn't the author's mother tongue.

[st_jane_ambulance]

Um... do you mean except/accept?

[(Anonymous)]

....I think you mean "except," not "expect." Goodness knows "except" and "accept" sound identical, while if you regularly screw up "accept" and "expect," I seriously question your familiarity with the English language.

That said, yeah, it seriously bugs me when people screw up except/accept (or they're/their/there, your/you're, who's/whose, affect/effect, lose/loose, et cetera). If you know you have trouble with those words, how difficult is it to double-check or get a beta reader who knows their stuff?

[ariakas]

For me it's should've/should "of". The latter is a clear sign that the person in question not only never enunciates, but has never read a book in their entire fucking lives.

Followed by close runner up, confusing "then" and "than". Especially if it happens consistently throughout the entire work/comment.

[littlestbirds]

Assuming you meant except/accept, I didn't even realize that was a mistake people made. Ever. I feel so sheltered.

[(Anonymous)]

Breath/breathe (as in: "I can breath") makes me twitch every time I see it.

[starzki]

Recently, the mix-up that makes me cringe is then/than. My eyes always seem to stutter on the page when they're used incorrectly because I can't make the sentence make sense.

Last night, I watched a wedding dress show and the mother of the bride made the comment that the dress, "needed more embezzlement."

I nearly dented the table banging my head on it.

[lielac]

*they're
*except/accept

Muphry's law strikes again!

Oh, while we're airing pet peeves... everyday and "every day" are NOT THE SAME THING. The former is a synonym of 'ordinary', while in the second 'every' modifies 'day' to state how often something is done. And. And. There's another one (I think) that the spellchecker wouldn't catch, where a compound word's meaning is different from that of the two-word phrase. It makes me want to flip tables every time because THAT IS NOT WHAT THOSE WORDS MEAN

Blar,
Lielac

P.S.: I will never give up the decimate/devastate fight. There's not even a 'but decimate sounds better' argument... okay kind of because the latter ends in -tate but the former ends in -mate BUT WHATEVER THEY HAVE THE SAME CADENCE AND VERY SIMILAR SOUNDS AND THE SAME SYLLABLE COUNT AND AND AND

ARGH

-Hulks out, flips tables-

[saiika_von_maou]

OMG, kindred spirit!

[forgottenjester]

I find the fact you made a typo in your "I JUDGE YOU!" secret on the exact word you judge about absolutely hilarious.

The two words should exactly alike in my accent so it's really hard for me to distinguish between the two. I know the definitions too. I can just never figure out which word belongs to which definition. However, I recognize this problem so whenever I write that word I always double or triple check it just in case.

*shrug* Everyone has things that tick them off though. This is yours. Okay.

[nursethalia]

I would sympathize with you if you had bothered checking your own grammar before posting. It's except and they're, not expect and theyre.