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beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 03:00 AM
affect was not found in the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms

affect was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary in the following entries:

affect (INFLUENCE)
affect (PRETEND)
affect was found in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English in the following entries:

affect (INFLUENCE)
affect (PRETEND)
affect was found in the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary in the following entries:

affect (verb)
affect was found in the Dictionnaire Cambridge Klett Compact in the following entries:

affect
affect was found in the Diccionario Cambridge Klett Compact in the following entries:

affect
Did you spell it correctly? Here are some alternatives:

apeshit
tokosan
10-01-2005, 03:02 AM
the only thing I see wrong here is YOUR FACE
Phresher than it Got
10-01-2005, 04:34 AM
nice?
GHoSToKeR
10-01-2005, 04:52 AM
lol @ apeshit

Did it seriously suggest that as an alternative?
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 11:22 AM
I wanted to see what the Cambridge Book of Idioms was like, so I clicked on the blank space and chose "affect" from the list of words. Post #1 was exactly what they came up with. They offered no other examples for the mis-spelling other than "apeshit".
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 11:23 AM
the only thing I see wrong here is YOUR FACE

Speaking of YOUR FACE, ahh, forget it.
st0n3r
10-01-2005, 11:26 AM
urr yeh there gay
ilikerabbits
10-01-2005, 11:29 AM
urr yeh there gay


you quar ?
ArtRollins
10-01-2005, 11:37 AM
AFFEERERS, English law. Those who upon oath settle and moderate fines in courts leet. Hawk. 1. 2, c. 112.


That is the closest I could get to that word. This is from a dictionary dated 1823. Perhaps your word has root there? Here is another. So why the ommisions in these others?

af·fect1 ( P )
tr.v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects
To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

n. (fkt)
Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language: ??The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect? (Norman Mailer).
Obsolete. A disposition, feeling, or tendency.
ArtRollins
10-01-2005, 11:39 AM
English (as in not American) dictionaries?

You have heard of newspeak?
ArtRollins
10-01-2005, 11:45 AM
affect was not found in the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms

affect
Did you spell it correctly? Here are some alternatives:

apeshit

I think that last vaporyes did me in, I just got it!

I thought at first it was your comment.
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 12:19 PM
urr yeh there gay

I can't tell if that's an ignorant remark or you're talking in your sleep.
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 12:21 PM
Art, I looked it up in the Cambridge Book of Idioms.
BUZz UK
10-01-2005, 12:24 PM
i've shat myself...
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 12:49 PM
Here's a link, if you want to see for yourself:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=affect&image.x=32&image.y=5
GHoSToKeR
10-01-2005, 08:12 PM
beachguy, I don't understand what point you're trying to make, or what you're trying to say happened.
beachguy in thongs
10-01-2005, 08:20 PM
My point was not to explain myself, Stoker, I don't mean to offend you by calling you that.
GHoSToKeR
10-01-2005, 08:47 PM
LOL, don't worry about it. :D