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

[Frank O'Connor]

I blame Alexander Haig and the American military for Newspeak ...    :)

First take noun. Now verbalise it. Use it in as many conversations as possible.

At 3:51 PM +1100 20/1/11, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>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
>
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