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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!bnrgate!bcars6a8!pww
- From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
- Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.221456.10765@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <1dmjecINNp8g@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BxI7u1.LwE@unx.sas.com> <BxIAFI.2oA@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:14:56 GMT
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- In article <BxIAFI.2oA@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
- >In article <BxI7u1.LwE@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
- >|Finally, the execrable solution of overusing the passive voice can be
- >|applied. This way, avoiding mentioning a subject altogether can be
- >|achieved. Most will agree that this is the way some of the worst writing
- >|is performed.
- >
- >"It will be agreed by most. . . ."
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- Where are the smileys?
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- pww
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- (The readership hashed passive vs active voice to death not too long
- ago.)
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