That's because people don't know the difference between affect and effect. They also don't know the difference between further and farther.
Of course, the great irony is that "verb" is a noun. :) It doesn't matter anyway, we're about 30 years late but we will all be speaking Newspeak soon enough. :) (the funny thing is I think Orwell used metric in "1984") Phil On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]>wrote: > Two particular annoyances: > > An impact is what happens when one thing strikes another. It has now been > "verbed" and is the new trendy business buzzword for "affect". > > "Leverage" is a financial term involving using borrowed money for a > purpose. > It too has become THE new trendy word as both a noun and, unspeakably, a > verb. > > I edit documents at work and have a rather notorious reputation at editing > out both words whenever I see them used inappropriately. > > Carleton > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 14:56 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52464] Re: Use of the Word "Metric" > > Re: [USMA:52457] Reuse of Word > > An interesting point. The venerable Webster's Unabridged Second Edition, > which is still used by careful writers, does not list "metric" as a noun. > The Third Edition does, so the word gained recognition after 1960. > Accurate writers now use "SI Metric" to designate the Modern Metric System. > > The usage that really bugs me is the run-away usage of "vouns," that is, > verbs used as nouns. We are commonly hearing now, except from the most > careful broadcasters, "the sequester" instead of "the sequestration." We > have long heard in recent decades about doing "an install" instead of "an > installation." This confusing peculiarity of English works the other way > too. For example, some would "mustard" their hot dog, using the noun as a > verb. > >
