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The irony being that Orwell discouraged using the passive voice in "Politics and The English Language" 4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
by SixSigma 11y ago
The irony being that Orwell discouraged using the passive voice in "Politics and The English Language"
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
All rules are there to be broken
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
- a_c_s 11y agoThere's nothing 'ironic' about believing that different changes to language have different merits.
- SixSigma 11y agoOrwell writes 1984: reader finds "the desire to remove undesirable language from our vocabulary quite unnerving." Orwell writes essay advising writers to remove undesirable vocabary, part of which OP is an extended exploration. Irony