the banana effect

Our language is far to difficult to understand in most cases, too many words sounding the same but meaning different things, especially affect and effect, far too complicated to understand, and to use.


Effect is the noun, meaning something that is produced by a cause, for example, the heat gave the effect of a thousand small fires burning in the horizon


Affect is the verb, meaning to produce an effect or change, for example, the dark room affected the growth of the plant.




So, affect is the verb, so you are effecting something, and the effect is the noun, which is the product of the affect you cause.