>>24535440>>24535500just to be clear because I know this is actually an international website, the post includes this bit in greentext
>>Argentinians most effectedthis would be incorrect and is a common example of where people mess up effected vs affected, not intended to be emulated
however, in the context of the quotation, the wordplay is that "most" is doing heavy double-duty because the subject could be the affectation itself instead of the Argentinians (as in the case of "women most affected" etc.) while "most" acts as an adverb instead of a differentiator, making the compound sentence actually read as follows when broken into simple sentences:
>Ollie was deeply affected by an Argentinian superchat. Argentinians were the most effective at affecting Ollie.this is not an obvious reading and not how a sane person would interpret the sentence if they heard it aloud, which is why clarity and context clues are more important than being anal about affected vs. effected
>>24535688>the weather affected his mood.mood change: outcome
>computers have had a huge effect on our liveshuge effect: abstract product
if I wanted to quote a dictionary definition that doesn't provide a case-specific explanation of how the mistake itself occurred, I would have
