On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Sean Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> Time to do a total copout, I guess, given that I'm not paying enough >> attention to sort this out by myself: >> >> For each colour of ribbon, I attempt to award myself a ribbon of that >> colour. > > Treating as INEFFECTIVE as attempting to do something is not an action.
Long precedent and common sense is that saying "I attempt to do X" is equivalent to saying "I do X".

