November 1, 2006
None shall question my diction
Mark Liberman is again talking up passive voice here (in response to a query related to the NaNoWriMo, which I seem to mention annually and wistfully here at locussolus... maybe I should get off my ass, hmmm?), and his discussion is a great opportunity for me to readvertise my all-passive post from a couple months back, which apparently went entirely unnoticed by all but my most vigilant readers (OK, reader) -- except that looking back on that post now with some of Mark's latest comments in mind, I wonder if some of the passives I used two months ago are even legitimate passives. Shit.
lol -- I knew *something* was off about that post, but I was too clueless to put my finger on it.
you're just rev'ing at a higher speed than the rest of us, friend. ;)
or it could just be mental defect.
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