"Stan Shebs" <shebs(a)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