Something that makes you feel stupid...

[MaskedOne]

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But by that logic then we should be spelling love as LUV because that was popular and pushed for a bit. We (collectively) justify dumbing down things, and the acceptance of them, because it was written in another way or people have become lazy. Use them correctly and your suddenly the dumb person in their eyes or the nerd which is sort of sad if you think about it.

LUV didn't gain sufficiently long lasting and widespread acceptance. If it did then eventually it would become the dominant spelling. As cringeworthy as that is, language is a means to represent and communicate about ideas. It will change. We may not like any specific change and we may attempt to slow changes but if the phrasing you're using fails in its purpose of communicating with other people then its on you to either inspire change in everyone else or adapt your own language.

[thalassa]

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Hm but doesn't that first infer your referring to a two dimensional drawing on a flat piece of paper? If someone is talking about a 3 dimensional location they can visit, ie upper world or lower world, celestial or chthonic worlds then it's not a flat piece of paper but a place. Normally it seems when I see the usage of "Plane" it's in reference to a location whether it be celestial, chthonic, upper world, lower world, etheral or astral or other such places.

Three dimensionality is created by two intersecting planes. A cartesian plane is created with two intersecting lines. A line is created with two points. When you add to two intersecting planes to a continuum, you get space-time, the physics concept. But in Eculidian-space, you can have infinite planes intersecting and create (through vectors) more-than-3d-space.

It's the kind of math I can talk about, but I don't truly understand....

Don't get me wrong, I highly doubt most people are using it that way or have thought about it that much, I'm just saying I can understand why they would..

[B. de Corbin]

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LUV didn't gain sufficiently long lasting and widespread acceptance. If it did then eventually it would become the dominant spelling. As cringeworthy as that is, language is a means to represent and communicate about ideas. It will change. We may not like any specific change and we may attempt to slow changes but if the phrasing you're using fails in its purpose of communicating with other people then its on you to either inspire change in everyone else or adapt your own language.

Makes me want a lite beer.

[anunitu]

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The more beer you drink,the lighter it gets...known to also work for Ale and hard cider....

[Briton]

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I always type owkr on the laptop, not work. It's infuriating. I have to go back and change every time.

[anunitu]

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brain freeze...I get those too

[monsno_leedra]

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Three dimensionality is created by two intersecting planes. A cartesian plane is created with two intersecting lines. A line is created with two points. When you add to two intersecting planes to a continuum, you get space-time, the physics concept. But in Eculidian-space, you can have infinite planes intersecting and create (through vectors) more-than-3d-space.

It's the kind of math I can talk about, but I don't truly understand....

Don't get me wrong, I highly doubt most people are using it that way or have thought about it that much, I'm just saying I can understand why they would..

Going way off topic but I though even if two lines intersect it's still two dimensional. Perhaps even three lines if you use a typical X & Y Grid and plot a cross line between two points with XY locations. Though to be honest I am not fully familiar with the other geometric aspects you mention. About the only one I have a little knowledge of is 6 maybe 7 points in free space to plot a location and plot a line to it. But I highly doubt that most people using plane are referring to it in that capacity.

Though it is sort of ironic I suppose in that that very notion of marking above, below, before, behind and to each side to locate a center consists of the 7 points in space that are needed to project to an 8th point across a great distance.

Now return to our regularly scheduled topic of things that make you feel stupid.

[Briton]

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I've always been fascinated by physics, I even talked to UCL about a masters course they do in Spacecraft Design, but what thal wrote demonstrates it is NOT for me lol.

[Medusa]

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Sometimes some of the posts Thal makes when she's all sciencee and stuff. I'm like hold up, wait a minute, let me get my dictionary in it.

[B. de Corbin]

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Just because I want to play, but dunno nothin' 'bout plains/planes...

Affect vs. effect

"Affect" is a verb (an action), "effect" is a noun (thing).

If you are talking about doing something, use "affect": I will affect a change in your thinking.

If you are talking about the result, use "effect": The effect of that change will be different behavior.

[DanieMarie]

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When I'm really tired, I spell English words with German spelling. Like with a "j" instead of a "y", or "k" instead of a "c". German isn't even my first language.

[thalassa]

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Just because I want to play, but dunno nothin' 'bout plains/planes...

Affect vs. effect

"Affect" is a verb (an action), "effect" is a noun (thing).

If you are talking about doing something, use "affect": I will affect a change in your thinking.

If you are talking about the result, use "effect": The effect of that change will be different behavior.

...the part that makes me feel stupid is that next time I want to use either word, I'll remember this, but I'll be sure that I have them mixed up.

[B. de Corbin]

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...the part that makes me feel stupid is that next time I want to use either word, I'll remember this, but I'll be sure that I have them mixed up.

Stop feeling stupid about this!

Everybody has to stop & think & double check before using either. Stupid only comes in if you don't care (I confuse them as well, and I also double check "there" and "their" - not because I don't know, but because I don't always do what I know)

I don't even spend time on affect/effect in high school. I'm still trying to get them to start sentences with a capital letter, and to end words with "s" or "'s" as necessary.

THAT is stupid.

[Briton]

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Just because I want to play, but dunno nothin' 'bout plains/planes...

Affect vs. effect

"Affect" is a verb (an action), "effect" is a noun (thing).

If you are talking about doing something, use "affect": I will affect a change in your thinking.

If you are talking about the result, use "effect": The effect of that change will be different behavior.

The problem is that reality is not so simple. Effect is also used as a verb, to mean 'to make something happen', whereas affect is a change or alteration.

Whilst you may say

"How does this affect you?"

You wouldn't say "The therapist managed to affect reconciliation." But "effect", as in bring it into effect.

[B. de Corbin]

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The problem is that reality is not so simple. Effect is also used as a verb, to mean 'to make something happen, whereas affect is a change or alteration.

Whilst you may say

"How does this affect you?"

You wouldn't say "The therapist managed to affect reconciliation." But "effect", as in bring it into effect.

Yeah - English language exceptions are the very devil. In issues like this, I shoot for averages. My philosophy - get the general down, then look at specific exceptions.