[LINK] Recovery of universities, libraries and archives from floods

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 20/01/11 3:44 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 20/01/2011, at 3:31 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 20/01/2011 3:20 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>> Organisations are asked to send details of affected archives.
>>>
>> I don't think you mean affected:
>>
>> "affected"  adj. 1 pretended, artificial. 2 full of affectation.
> I think he does. From the Macquarie Dictionary...
>
> affected1
> (say uh'fektuhd)
> adjective 1. acted upon; influenced: the affected group.
> 2. influenced injuriously; impaired; attacked, as by climate, disease or pollution, etc.: *It only takes a small quantity of oil to create a mammoth pollution problem and the affected area is extremely difficult to clean up. –COMMUNITY EXPRESS, 1987... [snip]
>
> Stil
>
>
Oh. I thought that the Academy for Boring Newspeak had given the edict 
that "Impacted" must now replace "affected" because there are too many 
C-level executives getting humiliated by their spell-checkers when they 
say "effected" instead of "impacted". Did I get that right?

RC