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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Cash-voting vs. ballot casting
Does it mean that we are spending a lot of money needlessly, but we don't go and vote?
Some even argue that cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: we buy, and thereby incentivize producers, every day; but we vote far less often.
Some even argue that cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: we buy, and thereby incentivize producers, every day; but we vote far less often.
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Dear friend, let me divide the sentence into pieces and analyse them: Some even argue that... - Some people think the following idea to be true, but it isn't necessarily so; ... cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: ...
- Dear friend, let me divide the sentence into pieces and analyse them: Some even argue that...
- - Some people think the following idea to be true, but it isn't necessarily so; ...
- cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: ...
- - we pay money for different products much more often than we vote for politicians, thus expressing our approval or disapproval of the product manufacturers; ...
- we buy, and thereby incentivize producers, every day; but we vote far less often.
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Dear friend,
let me divide the sentence into pieces and analyse them:
Some even argue that... - Some people think the following idea to be true, but it isn't necessarily so;
... cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: ... - we pay money for different products much more often than we vote for politicians, thus expressing our approval or disapproval o
let me divide the sentence into pieces and analyse them:
Some even argue that... - Some people think the following idea to be true, but it isn't necessarily so;
... cash-voting goes further than ballot-casting: ... - we pay money for different products much more often than we vote for politicians, thus expressing our approval or disapproval o
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Casting a ballot means voting in an election.
Voting with your cash means favoring a product by purchasing it.
Cash-voting and ballot-casting strike me as non standard English. Than again maybe somebody actually speaks like that?
Voting with your cash means favoring a product by purchasing it.
Cash-voting and ballot-casting strike me as non standard English. Than again maybe somebody actually speaks like that?
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Jemaasjr,
the words, indeed, seem anomalous, though the way of their formation is quite a conventional one, namely, compounding. By the way, 'Cash-voting' is the name David Wattenberg gave to his article on the Whitewater scandal, and 'ballot-casting' is chiefly used as a noun modifier, as in ballot-casting equipment.
Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
the words, indeed, seem anomalous, though the way of their formation is quite a conventional one, namely, compounding. By the way, 'Cash-voting' is the name David Wattenberg gave to his article on the Whitewater scandal, and 'ballot-casting' is chiefly used as a noun modifier, as in ballot-casting equipment.
Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Dear friend,
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Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
you are welcome. Please ask again should you have any further questions. You might consider introducing yourself to the forum community in order to make interaction more personalised.
Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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