Pancyrus's comments

Here's the list of comments submitted by pancyrus  — There are currently 4 comments total.

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The irony of you coming to grammar.com to make fun of people advocating for proper grammar seems to be completely lost on you. I really have to wonder why you're coming here then.

1 year ago

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And you do realize that it is jargon that is proscribed by almost every writing institution and style guide out there? Nevertheless, even in the jargon sense, your first example of "My phone has such a strong impact on my life, I can't live without it" clearly shows that people don't realize the grammatical mistakes they're making with it as well. If "impact" means "strong/violent/marked effect", then saying "strong impact" is redundant and shows that the person saying it doesn't understand what the word means. This is why the word is proscribed everywhere; there's absolutely no reason to use it when saying "effect" will do just fine and doesn't have the jargon label associated with it. 

1 year ago

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The point is that he should've used it 0 times.

1 year ago

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Oh my gosh, please stop saying "impact". The implant is not crashing into his body; it is having an effect or influence on his body. I don't know why such nonsensical jargon is being propagated by supposedly learned platforms such as yours, let alone becoming more popular at all. 

2 years ago

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