Evil passive voice

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon May 14 18:56:42 UTC 2007


On May 2, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Larry Horn wrote:

> ... Or even more passive-aggressively, from the new (5/7) New Yorker,
> just arrived on my doorstep, p. 87--...

now blogged about:

AZ, 5/14/07: The unfab four:
  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004495.html

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