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Mine is a little depressed.

Affect and effect can be used as verbs or nouns. Affect as used by the OP might be more scientific in connotation and perhaps personify the tuning slide as it acts on “timbre, response, and intonation.” The usage is not wrong but less common. Shire’s website gives insight as to the effects of radii and materials on tuning slides.

Are you sure? The OP clearly used affect as a noun, and usually the noun usage refers to emotion. It seemed wrong to me but I didn't want to be the first to pick that nit.

If it has a weight on it, it may feel depressed. If it is pushed all the way in, it may feel cornered and therefore anxious.

I am feeling attacked.

greenbean wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:44 am I am feeling attacked.

I guess that's worse than being affected?

This tuning slide may affect the environment.
The tuning slide's effect on the war was minimal.
His mania was due to The Tuning Slide Effect.
With this tuning slide, the player affected a nostalgia for pinstripes.
The tuning slide created a radiant effect.
This tuning slide was among his effects in the sarcophagus.

"He manipulated the trombone slide to great effect."

Excursions by English as a second language speakers on this sight are non moving violations compared to the murder and mayhem committed on the English language by native speakers. I can’t write two paragraphs without making a typographical error any more. There are some English usages that I simply avoid.

I was reading Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns of August” two days ago. She was bottoming out the hull in the an early chapter, perhaps without making an actual grammar error. It happens, even with peer reviews and editors.

A friendly atmosphere generally encourages more truth, knowledge, and enlightenment, and is more consistent with the goals of a site like this.

It doesn't help that they both seem to originate from the same Latin word.

They don't merely sound the same... they were the same.

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JCBone wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:47 am Geez, I make a minor grammatical error (which as oneton pointed out, is actually correct) while asking a valid question and I get in response 2 helpful answers and 6 unessecary jokes concerning the error.

Hey, you got an answer! On most internet forums all you get is "RTFM".

Split topics into tangents since this is quite the tangent from OP's topic

Does an effect affect an affect’s effect?

All kidding aside, I don't feel like this ever got cleared up. A thing that happens as a result of another thing is an EFFECT, spelled with an E. It is not an affect. Yes, affect can be a noun, but it doesn't mean the same thing.