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.
jaselle
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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."
"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.
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Seems like a sensible policy. They do get a bit confused about traditional ML vs genAI but so does everyone else at the moment.