[WikiEN-l] Eternal Ephemeral

Fri Oct 31 23:56:47 UTC 2003

"Stan Shebs" <shebs at apple.com> schrieb:
> Heh, that's why I haven't wrote it up on a [[Wikipedia:]] page. But speaking
> to your examples, I would refine "affects" to mean that which people are
> conscious of; the recipients of mail are not really aware of the postal
> carrier, and the maintenance person who fixes a phone switch and thereby
> enables a million people to make phone calls is still anonymous. Leif 
> affects
> people via his story, which is taught to millions of students; thus his
> notability derives from being written about, just as it does for victims
> of sensational crimes - and voila, things are brought full circle. :-)

I would not use the word 'affect' for something like that. It's more like
a measure of how "famous" a person is.

Andre Engels