jaselle

Basically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though -- "can" and "can't" pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.

Yep! That's why I specified the meaning.

wdym?

right:

• the news affected me.
• What effect will the new curriculum have on the kids?

wrong:

• the news effected me
• what affect will the new curriculum have on the kids?

If they were serious about privacy-preserving age verification, they'd be looking at zero-knowledge proofs. Since ZKP is not on the table, this is really about control and surveillance.

I believe headline meant "mustn't."

not blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning "to influence or alter," effect is the noun meaning "the result of a cause."

*affect

"jobsworth," British slang for someone like that.

Yeah one time my passport got slightly wet -- just enough to make it a bit crinkly -- and my gov't forced me to process it as "damaged" and pay a fine

Poilievre killed that with misinformation.

You probably don't need to. You can just access it via health gateway.

I actually approve of correctly referring to Israeli terrorism as settler colonialism.