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>b) "effect of", not "affect of" Oh no, oh lord lmao I meant "affect" and not "effect." You need to learn what affect means. I'm not asking you to learn about
by viccis 1y ago
>b) "effect of", not "affect of"
Oh no, oh lord lmao
I meant "affect" and not "effect." You need to learn what affect means. I'm not asking you to learn about affect theory, but ffs no part of my sentence implied it meant "effect" and not "affect." Ugh. It doesn't even make sense. What would the "effect" of "poorly composed sentences" be? Only affect makes sense there.
- johnnienaked 1y agoYou know that affect means to have an effect on something right?
- slipperydippery 1y agoThe noun sense does not.
- viccis 1y agoaffect noun Psychology., feeling or emotion. Psychiatry., an expressed or observed emotional response. Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. Obsolete., affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling. Now let's replace that in my original phrase: > prose intending to imitate the affect of poorly composed sentences becomes > prose intending to imitate the feeling or emotion of poorly composed sentences My point was that the author is trying to convey a specific feeling by way of poorly composed sentences. Perhaps they want a colloquial feel or a ranting feel or a rambling one. An obvious example would be the massive run-on sentence in Ulysses.
- johnnienaked 1y agoPoorly constructed sentences cannot have an affect.
- viccis 1y agoWritten text can absolutely signify an affect, and poorly constructed sentences regularly do.