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Once again, it appears the correct is just going to lose out to the convenient.
Using "impact" as a transitive verb, essentially as a synonym for a perfectly acceptable and understandable verb, "affect." For some reason, this has run amok recently (like the last couple of decades) and seems lost.
I don't know why people feel smarter or more buzzy or whatever when using that verb... but it gets to me. And I know, I'm on the losing end of this -- you don't need to drop web citations that say it's now standard, I know that's what many sources now concede. I still don't like it, and I still downgrade people making that usage.
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