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May 03, 2004
[For example, my biggest pet peeve from physics days was that most of my students would say that a force "impacted on" an object, which drove me crazy because it was wrong in like five different ways (forces don't "impact" upon things, but rather "impinge" upon them; when people say that A "impacts on" B, they're often just semiliterate, and mean instead to say that A "has an impact on" B; be less fancy (and more precise) and say that the force "acts" on the object; and so forth). People who can't be bothered with such annoying details are not going to be too interested in practicing science 60 hours a week...]
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