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Re: English question

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, November 29, 2001, 10:55
Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:

> Not if it takes `one' instead: `He voted Bob Brown one', although that's > rare because people are more likely to say `He voted for the Greens'.
Whereas in the FPTP voting system that (most of) the rest of the Anglo world uses, "He voted George Bush one" makes little or no sense!
> Incidentally, can anyone say what the `one' is there?
The sentence sounds parallel to "He called John stupid" to me. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan

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