{"id":115,"date":"2004-03-29T22:43:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/29\/save_it_for_the_teeth.html"},"modified":"2004-03-29T22:43:40","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T05:43:40","slug":"save_it_for_the_teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/29\/save_it_for_the_teeth.html","title":{"rendered":"Save it for the teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an otherwise interesting story on Lou Piniella’s influence on A-Rod<\/a>, the Times<\/I>‘ Jack Curry makes my least favorite mistake, and uses “impacted” as a verb. If you’re going to use “impacted,” use it as an adjective to describe teeth<\/A> or bones<\/A>, not as a verb when you actually mean “influenced” or “affected.” <\/p>\n

“When Piniella was reminded of the peck he gave Rodriguez and how much it impacted him, he smiled like a proud parent.” Read the whole story to find out why A-Rod is getting a peck on the forehead from Sweet Lou, but the point is that Curry’s use of “impacted” is ugly<\/A>. Probably acceptable due to common usage, but ugly nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an otherwise interesting story on Lou Piniella’s influence on A-Rod, the Times‘ Jack Curry makes my least favorite mistake, and uses “impacted” as a verb. If you’re going to use “impacted,” use it as an adjective to describe teeth or bones, not as a verb when you actually mean “influenced” or “affected.” “When Piniella […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}