General Discussion

Is it that irregular verbs confuse people?

I have come to accept that people can't keep affect and effect straight, so no one is affected, we are impacted instead, which always sounds quite uncomfortable to me.

We have forever lost the distinction between jealous and envious, and, heaven help us, the difference between disinterested and uninterested, which seems like a sad loss of a valuable concept. As they say, you better hope you get a disinterested judge in your trial, not an uninterested one.