We’re going to add more homophones in the future. I’ll add those to the list for consideration.

And thanks for your comments. It’s refreshing to have constructive criticism.

And while you’re at it, you might want to add faze/phase and mute/moot.

I was quite gladdened to come across your site, “learnyourdamnhomophones.com” Quite instructive! However, I have one correction.

While “affect” is always a verb, “effect” can in fact be a verb or a noun. The noun form is the most common (”What effect will this comment have on his site, I wonder?”) However, you can also effect things: it essentially means to cause something to happen (”My snarky comment will hopefully effect a hasty edit to the site.”)

I’d like to make it clear that I am in no way criticizing your site, which existence, I assure you, I greatly appreciate. I am only hoping to hone the intellectual razor you have brought to the internet.

I’d say that when a student finds himself in such a situation he should buckle down and do what he can. This includes extra work outside class time, visiting office hours, and maybe even sitting into other lectures to see if another professor gets through to him.

Of course, that’s probably the right reaction. I would probably just take on the attitude that if the professor doesn’t do his job, then I wouldn’t either. But we both know how well that’s worked out so far.