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Article #591Re: Effect the Election
From: Ryan Thompson
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:31
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:31
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In article <8ud20e$vf$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, Ze Ninguem wrote: >In git.announce Ryan Thompson <news@flamtap.org> wrote: >>>Actually, "Effect the Election" is a perfectly valid phrase; I just >>>don't think it means what D'Andries thinks it does. > >> Unless it's a proper noun, it's a verb. > >I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say here. Effect can be >either a noun or a verb, but usually not a proper noun. I screwed it up. Didn't think about what I was saying. What I meant to write was that Effect is a noun, but in the phrase above it would have to be a verb (like "shoot the cat") or a proper noun (like "Felix the cat"). >> "Effect the Election" sounds like >> a really bad children's story. :) > >Um, what?? yeah -R
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