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Igel

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22. The OP's consistent.

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 07:46 PM

Jun 2016

In the original post was written "democrat" and "republican," lower case. Take it as a quirk of the poster.

You can vote green, vote republican, vote democrat, vote socialist or vote working families party.

Notice that "green, republican, democrat, socialist" are all fine nouns. And so is the WFP.

I slightly disprefer "democratic" there, and if I include it I want to add "ticket" or spoof it by saying "vote democratically". (Then again, I tend to think of "Democrat" as a much an adjective as "apple pie" or "turkey dinner." People who require that adjectives look like adjectives must really have problems with things like "flight clearance check protocol verification" or "kitty litter bag removal". We speak a Germanic language, it's time to drop prescriptivist babble because there are enough meaningful and confusing syntactic, lexical, and morphological changes coming down the line as a result of substratum and adstratum influence.)

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