Re: Effect the Election

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From: Ze Ninguem
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:36

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In git.announce Ryan Thompson <news@flamtap.org> wrote:
> 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 _is_ a verb.

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From: Ze Ninguem <solomon@angband.org>
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Subject: Re: Effect the Election
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