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The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might (www.thegamer.com)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Affected, not impacted. Never use the word impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted when bodies collide.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

At first I was thinking, why not use "impacted", it sounds a little bit awkward, but I've definitely seen it being used in relatively formal situations (or at least that's what I remember).

But no, I looked it up and "impacted" should not be used in the sense of affected. TIL.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

If media can say "slammed" to mean "said something about", I can use "impacted" to mean "affected". Especially when we have the word "impactful".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

“Impactful” is a heinous travesty of the language. I’ve actually seen “impactfulness” used too. Also bad is “impacts” … “the stock market has suffered several impacts due to low business confidence.” This cumbersome wording tries to amp up the drama. It’s much cleaner to say “The stock market has been affected by low business confidence.” Aside from the shock value of replacing “affected” with impacted, a metaphor for bodily collision, many have turned to impacted because the subtle difference between affected and effected intimidates them.

Be the better person. Avoid the hokey metaphor.

Btw, media uses “slammed” and “pounds” and other Batman words simply because they get more clicks than rebuked or chastized. Don’t be a headline writer.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Impactfullted.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

"impacts" has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it's common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.

I'm not afraid of language evolving.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Didn't mean to imply you can't, I was just curious about the formal rules for the word.

And it seems "impacted" can be used in the sense of "affected".

I am confused :)

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