To point out that the word is “faze” and not “phase” in this context?

[Anyotherdude]

I’ve been reading so many threads where someone writes about being “phased” or “not phased” about something.
it was bothering me so much that I checked to see if it was me that was getting it wrong.
I didn’t.
To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step, so you can be phased into a role, but if you’re not bothered by something, it doesn’t faze you!

Unless you’re a global spelling bee champion, or even a UK one, I just don’t believe you, sorry.

Good spellers are ten a penny. You are not special.

Unfazed is a word

The language evolves argument is why we have to keep fighting the good fight. That's why I keep pointing out when people use "nonplussed" incorrectly even though I know I am being irritating.

Because it makes it that much harder to understand the text at hand. HTH.

Then that’s a YOU problem. You are not owed perfect grammar.

Mine is people saying empathetic when it's empathic. Most people do use empathetic so I'd never correct anyone. But I'm secretly over the moon when empathic is used. I'd never say this irl because people in glass houses and pot calling kettle black and all that! 😁

'a opportunity'? It's an opportunity isn't it?

Yep. I didn't say I was a great typist 😏

I'm often surprised by the increasing use of 'yous' nowadays. As in 'what are yous doing'.

I'm a terrible spag offender so it doesn't bother me really just, 'yous'?? Is it as in the plural of you?

Funny how they’re traumatised by spelling mistakes made by others and yet justify their own.

@Anyotherdude could of and could have also would of and would have! the worst for me reading is when people write "chester draws"!!!!! wtf is chester draws meant to mean?

@pensione, I wish I could meet you in real life. You seem such an adorable person 😍

She was joking! She doesn’t expect people to be impressed by her!

And you are in the top two dozen spellers in the world, you are such an amazing person 🤩

She’s not joking, read her subsequent posts.

I assumed that was deliberate and meant to be funny.

I often see mortified being used incorrectly on here.

My greatest pet peeve online. Sometimes even written in reputable articles! Thanks for pointing it out

I saw it as her laughing at herself, saying everyone should be impressed by her. As she was quoting from the ‘accusations’ levelled at pedants from another post.

She even included a laughing emoji.

Affect can also be a noun. Depends on the meaning eg the doppelgänger effect.

"Affect is a Noun that means a set of observable manifestations of an experienced emotion, such as facial expressions, gestures, postures, vocal intonations, etc. "
Mirriam-webster dictionary.

I only discovered recently that the saying "she got her just deserts" contains no double ss!!!

i had been spelling it incorrectly as 'desserts' for decades!

Yeah, someone else explained several pages ago that it is used in a niche clinical context.

Sadly, nobody in my life is impressed by my literacy skills, although they do seek my advice. I am ashamed to say that I have raised a pedant 😔 My 21y son is as appalled by a confused exacerbate/exasperate as the best of us on here, and I find it quite an unappealing trait in him 😱

PS I don’t know if I should use a full stop after an emoji or whether the emoji is sufficient at the end of a sentence. Any advice?!