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Re:Write like you talk by bshimmin on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:06AM (#10450198)
Here's a great piece from Geoffrey Pullum (fairly pre-eminent linguist) on the passive voice: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf

I think the discussion on this article has been very good, actually, and I'm not sure phrases like "intellectual seriousness" really add much to the debate.

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Re:Write like you talk by charlesism on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:10PM (#10453682)
"Intellectual seriousness" is a bad choice of words. Sorry, my irritation got the better of me. And to be more charitable to you, while I think writers should avoid the passive voice, I also don't believe there is any rule so important that one can never break it. The more important thing should always be to get one's point across.
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Re:Write like you talk by charlesism on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:23PM (#10453767)
That essay makes some good points. In my previous comment I was thinking mainly of sentences like "Mistakes were made."
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