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You know that affect means to have an effect on something right?

• slipperydippery 1y ago
  The noun sense does not.
• viccis 1y ago
  affect 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 ago
    Poorly constructed sentences cannot have an affect.
    • viccis 1y ago
      Written text can absolutely signify an affect, and poorly constructed sentences regularly do.