Jul 14, 2008 . That link I made there is worth reading, it's to a Language Log post "Passive Aggression" that illustrates the fallacy of an absolute .

Jun 30, 2010 . More from Language Log on Passives and Obama . unbelievably irresponsible prattle about how the frequency of passive constructions chosen .

14 posts - 12 authors - Last post: Nov 18, 2008Here are some Language Log articles about the passive: Passive agression This article makes direct reference to Orwell's opinions on the .

Jul 7, 2010 . The evidence is linked in the Language Log post: The first thing to say is that there isn't the slightest evidence that passive-voice .

Below is a list of posts from Language Log that discuss interesting (and often amusing) points about the passive construction, in chronological order, .

Feb 23, 2011 . GEOFF PULLUM really doesn't like people who abjure the passive voice. . Yes, that last one is a Language Log post criticising Pope .

Aug 4, 2006 . Because George Orwell recommended Passive Avoidance in his essay "Politics and the English Language", Geoff Pullum quoted an ironic .

Jan 24, 2011 . City Hall damaged by hail That said, we should not forget that it has also done some good. The day's work done, they made their way back to .

LSA131: The Language of Public Discourse . Readings: Orwell, "Politics," " Principles of Newspeak" Language Log posts on the passive. .

Apr 11, 2009 . (See at least two recent threads about the passive voice on .

Jan 14, 2011 . There's a new post at the Faculty Lounge on the passive voice (thanks to Prof . . The link to Language Log in the original post is to Prof. .

In the English language, the English passive voice is formed with an auxiliary . .. "How long have we been avoiding the passive, and why?". Language Log. .

Jan 24, 2011 . It is clear that some people think The bus blew up is in .

Mar 22, 2009 . The linguists at the popular blog Language Log have been tracking the use of the term "passive voice," and they say the answer is often no: .

Months language log delayed in a little bit delayed in analysis Nominated blogs language log tense greco Literally a fallen or limb of lewis from language .

Aug 12, 2010 . Language Log has been posting a lot recently about things that are wrongly being identified as passive voice, and therefore shouldn't be .

Jul 21, 2010 . There is no passive construction and no missing or .

May 13, 2011 . Free Language Stuff . Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: passive voice activities, . Guest; Log In; Log In; Log In. Gravatar .

May 2, 2011 . Language Log's Geoffrey Pullum sorts out what's active and passive in a take- down of Slate's Tom Scocca. The New York Times comes out OK. .

Apr 22, 2010 . Again I reference the writing of the Language Log, which published some time back a piece entitled “Suicided: the Adversative Passive Form .

Image by Erika Hall via Flickr, illustrating a real live passive (can you .

2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Jun 1, 200920000 passive /10000 active vocabulary . the low end estimate, which would still give me a 10000 word active vocabulary in the language. .

Nov 26, 2009 . Language Log Articles about Active and Passive: http .

Mass insanity over passive UFOs continues: A commenter named bloix here on Language Log recently pointed out yet a. http://bit.ly/b9OOmE.

Dec 17, 2003 . The evidence of bias may seem clear enough (I won't be evaluating that here), but this is Language Log, and -- forgive me for being a pedant .

I don't know if you're aware, but he regularly blogs at The Language Log: http:/ /languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/. The blogs other posts on the passive are .

Jan 12, 2010 . So you know how to find the percentage of passive voice in your work . My favorite analysis of this is at Language Log: “When men were men .

Jan 25, 2011 . Image by Erika Hall via Flickr, illustrating a real live passive . There's an excellent essay by Geoffrey K. Pullum over at Language Log, .

Nov 20, 2009 . Language Log Articles about Active and Passive: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu /nll/index.php?s=passive; wikipedia article on Voice: .

Dec 23, 2006 . Also, the bogus anti-passive-voice advice is pretty well refuted on the Language Log: How long have we been avoiding the passive, and why? .

Aug 5, 2006 . Languagehat and Language Log are seeking to redeem the passive voice, . My response to Languagehat and Language Log is, and I mean this in .

Language Log Let s put it in the passive tense. Let's put it in the passive .

Jul 18, 2006 . We had a great after-lunch discussion about the passive the other day in the Senior Writers' Lounge at Language Log Plaza. .

In early reaction to the beta release, Language Log concluded that the . Language Log also noted that the service's example of passive voice is not in .

32 posts - 19 authors - Last post: Jul 8, 2007[Archive] The passive voice AW Roundtable. . I dislike Elements of Style as much as Language Log does, but I do think Strunk's innocent of .

258, More passive complaints — misidentifying 5 passives out of 5 (21 July 2010) , http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2470 .

Jul 22, 2006 . A few days back, the Senior Writers' Lounge at Language Log Plaza was enlivened by an exchange about the passive voice in English. .

Jan 24, 2011 . First off, Geoffrey K. Pullum has taken on the task of explaining passive clauses. “The passive in English” at Language Log runs to 2500 .

Apr 13, 2009 . Mark Liberman at Language Log recently had cause to note how modern American prose stylists' dislike of the passive voice has morphed into .

Feb 9, 2011 . It's passive logic. And you can't afford to be passive when your audience . see Geoffrey K. Pullum's 2500-word post for Language Log. .

Nov 2, 2009 . A.J. Sutter is right about Jones: “if serious bodily injury results” is not an example of the passive voice. Language Log has done done a .

30 Apr 2011 . Language Log More passive tense Penn University of Pennsylvania. More passive tense As Geoff Pullum has just noted, on NPR's Morning Edition .

Mar 12, 2009 . Passive voice is a grammatical term whose first use in .

577, Let's put it in the passive tense, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/ languagelog/archives/004527.html. 576, Humpty Dumpty linguistics from Robert Fisk .

Jul 6, 2010 . Obama's Heavy Passive Usage The Global Language Monitor study, . "We have said it before on Language Log, and I'll say it again now: when .

Oct 2, 2010 . The Language Log recently has a blog asking readers to identify passive/active voice. (Apparently, they've been beating this horse for a .

Aug 4, 2006 . Language Log has been on a campaign to redeem the passive voice, investigating the origins of the prejudice against it—"Arnold Zwicky found .

Jan 24, 2011 . Numerous Language Log posts by me, Mark Liberman, and Arnold Zwicky among others have been devoted to mocking people who denigrate the .

54 posts - 30 authors - Last post: Jun 6, 2009If I understand the passive voice correctly wouldn't a better . .. FYI, Here is a list of Language Log articles about the passive voice: .

Jul 26, 2010 . Fortunately for Doostang, it probably won't be hurt much by Language Log's criticism. Yes, the “passive” phrases that were chosen wouldn't .

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