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Just going over the morning grammar lesson, I mean weather discussions and thought I'd throw in my two cents, so, here's another definition for affect from the American Heritage dictionary:
v. tr: To put on a false show of; simulate: as in "affected a British accent."
Oh, and look, here's the origin- of "erudite"
Middle English erudit, from Latin rudtus, past participle of rudre, to instruct : -, ex-, ex- + rudis, rough, untaught; see "rude."
Just thought I'd share
I don't think you shared enough. The root "rude" in this case means untrained, which is not related to its current meaning, offensive. If you're erudite, literally, you've had rudeness taken out of you; in other words, you have been educated. My comment was simply another way of saying I was not being bombastic.
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