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There once was a man named Quentin who was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. A group of concerned folk banded together to reverse his conviction and secure his release. They were known as the Free Quentin Brigade. The parole board determined that there was a lot wrong with Quentin -- alcoholism, drug addiction, anti-social personality disorder, and a lisp -- all of which they wanted to see corrected (or at least addressed) before he was released from prison. The Free Quentin Brigade opposed the parole board's position, arguing that a wrongfully-detained person ought not have to be fixed before being set free. Their position came to be know as the a-fix ("a-" in the sense of "without") argument. It was referred to, for short, as the Frequentive Affix. And there you are.
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