The Internet and its affect on Phrases

[FloridaCouple]

The Internet has changed the meaning of common words/phrases.


Before:
ATM = Automated Teller Machine

After:
Ass to Mouth


Before:
BBC = British Broadcasting Company

After:
BBC = Big Back Cock


Before:
Facial = "procedure involving a variety of skin treatments, including: steam, exfoliation, extraction, creams, lotions, facial masks, peels, and massage"

After:
Facial = Having face ejaculated on


Before:
Bear = mammal, like a black or grizzly

After:
Bear = Hairy gay guy


And that's just to name a few. There are more.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Don't you mean "effect"? Effect is a noun, "affect" a verb.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Context is everything here.

 

[FloridaCouple]

Don't you mean "effect"? Effect is a noun, "affect" a verb.

I meat to use affect, a verb,

"Affect with an a means "to influence," as in, "The arrows affected Ardvark," or "The rain affected Amy's hairdo"

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I meat to use affect, a verb,

"Affect with an a means "to influence," as in, "The arrows affected Ardvark," or "The rain affected Amy's hairdo"

"The Internet and its 'affect' on phrases." In this context, effect is the proper way to describe it.

 

[FloridaCouple]

"The Internet and its 'affect' on phrases." In this context, effect is the proper way to describe it.

Okay. I may have gotten it wrong.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Okay. I may have gotten it wrong.

You did. I'm a bit of a grammar nazi, if a bit rusty at times. I still get perturbed about the misuse of "momentarily" in daily business, for example. It means "for a while", not "in a while".