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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5709713" data-attributes="member: 57383">Thanks, but I'm aware of the difference.In this case it's affect as in &quot;to act upon/influence&quot; (verb form) or &quot;the disposition of a creature's body or mind&quot; (noun form), rather than the &quot;putting on an act&quot; noun &quot;affect&quot;. What was making me uncertain was whether it should be &quot;affect&quot; rather than &quot;affects&quot;, since it didn't look right in a plural form.e.g. you the Delphons' song has a psychological affect (or psychological affects) on its victims, since it's affecting their minds and emotions.However, I believe it's one of those words that's used slightly differently in UK English than your queer foreign version. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Actually, I believe that using affect for the result of phenomena that alter a creature's disposition is seen as a bit old-fashioned in some quarters, but one has to keep up standard. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 5709713, member: 57383"] Thanks, but I'm aware of the difference. In this case it's affect as in "to act upon/influence" (verb form) or "the disposition of a creature's body or mind" (noun form), rather than the "putting on an act" noun "affect". What was making me uncertain was whether it should be "affect" rather than "affects", since it didn't look right in a plural form. e.g. you the Delphons' song has a psychological affect (or psychological affects) on its victims, since it's affecting their minds and emotions. However, I believe it's one of those words that's used slightly differently in UK English than your queer foreign version. :p Actually, I believe that using affect for the result of phenomena that alter a creature's disposition is seen as a bit old-fashioned in some quarters, but one has to keep up standard. ;) [/QUOTE]

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