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To: Carolyn who wrote (8)	6/10/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 228

Oh thank you for anticipating my Big Gripe. The only time I can countenance "impact" as a verb is for colons or molars - perhaps other medicalia. I find that "affect" is a 100% useful drop-in replacement for the misappropriated verb, but I guess it doesn't have the same ... impact. Esoterica - the verb for the noun "impact" is "to impinge". as in: A big-ass rock impinged on the Yucatan 65 million years ago.

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