On Feb 14, 2006, at 20:31, Martha Krieg wrote:
Avoiding the passive may be an American fad... but I remember being
taken to task for using it back in the mid-70s when writing my
dissertation.
Nope, it's *not* an American fad... :)
During my U years (5, starting with October 1967), passive wa
At 08:31 PM 2/14/06 -0500, Martha Krieg wrote:
> Avoiding the passive may be an American fad... but I remember being
> taken to task for using it back in the mid-70s when writing my
> dissertation.
At one time, there was an American fad for writing *entirely* in the passive
voice. When a writ
Avoiding the passive may be an American fad... but I remember being
taken to task for using it back in the mid-70s when writing my
dissertation.
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:05:17 -0500, Martha wrote:
>However, I do frequently run into a problem where two current
>grammatical shibboleths occur at the same time:
>
>1) The passive voice must be avoided at all times.
>2) I must not overuse the first-person pronoun "I," lest I appear to
>be centere
T, you always leave me rolling on the floor with your descriptions of
language issues!
I didn't see a problem with the "victim" example - youngest/smallest
children are often vulnerable.
However, I do frequently run into a problem where two current
grammatical shibboleths occur at the same t
On Feb 12, 2006, at 21:46, Martha Krieg wrote:
Ah, but when you put your text into Word, the spell-checker squiggles
under the "colour" words,
I don't know what my writing program is now -- Word, Word Perfect or
something else entirely -- nor where its spell-checker lives. But I do
know that
