@Archimage As are all of them, really.

I just get the feeling you have put definitions in the domain of the sacrosanct, which I think is a mistake: consider, who writes them...?

@Archimage I guess I want 'impact' to be more noun-y, while today’s speaker hears it more verb-y. Uncontrollable phenomena are often vexing in this way.

@Archimage I trust it as far as I can throw it—er, know it. 🧐꩜

@Archimage Or are we getting ourselves into trouble here with the tendency to turn verbs into nouns nouns into verbs?

[ edit, wait—take that, reverse it ]

@Archimage Huh. I don’t read it that way. Either it has an impact, subtle, overt, whatevs, or it does not have an impact. Influence is one way to have an impact on something. Another is force. Another is reason. Another is chance.

The degrees of each and all can be split as you care to.

@Archimage Isn’t it though? If I suggest something and this something plays a role in someone else taking this or that action, well, that’s the impact.

@Archimage @mandaris Influence is a strange attractor ☘︎꩜❦❉

@Matti I really can’t see how you fit more happy in there! ❤︎

@crossingthethreshold @sod Yeah, nice. 😀❤︎ 7% seems strangely just right for a gentle prompt, cuz, hey, this stuff doesn’t write itself.

@Vincent @SimonWoods Yes, when you are tapped in just the right spot on your knee or elbow—bam!—the reflex has already happened. I try to remember to not be all too hard on myself for the emotional/cognitive version of this, while also trying to keep those little hammers away from my mental tendons.