'Impacted' is only for constipated babies
I saw that our president used 'impact' as a verb today in his comments on methamphetamine use. I assume our speech writer had nothing to do with those.
Like everything else, 'impact' as a verb has probably become acceptable. Eventually everything does.
I'm not a fan of William Buckley, but this does remind me of something the old grammarian once wrote. Back in the 1970s, he would take out a quarter column ad for his magazine each week in The New Republic. In it he would quote something from NR and follow it with a brief editorial rejoinder. After quoting an NR writer who had verbed a noun, Buckley wrote: Let us prayer for him.
Like everything else, 'impact' as a verb has probably become acceptable. Eventually everything does.
I'm not a fan of William Buckley, but this does remind me of something the old grammarian once wrote. Back in the 1970s, he would take out a quarter column ad for his magazine each week in The New Republic. In it he would quote something from NR and follow it with a brief editorial rejoinder. After quoting an NR writer who had verbed a noun, Buckley wrote: Let us prayer for him.
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