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Another Rule-Of-Thumb from my media days ... works most of the time ... Effect = result Affect = influence Sigh back atcha' tsuwm!
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Another rule of thumb, possibly better because you don't have to think about shades of meaning, is
effect = noun affect = verb
You seldom need to use the verb 'effect' (in fact you never need to, as 'cause' or 'stage' or some such clearer synonym is always at hand), and the noun 'affect' is so rare that I barely know what it means even when I think about it.
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Respect to tsuwm, but don't get grumpy, gramps! I wasn't remarking on the effect/affect split, because that (I think) is not what has happened here. I would take any odds the happless hack has fallen into this affectation through groping for the alternative and more effective description: infected.
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