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It's also using passive voice. Consider: "We will terminate your verified status for adding links to one of our competitor's sites."

• ineedasername 7y ago
  When someone is lying, the passive voice is a very common choice of words. (Source: I took a forensic linguistics course as part of a comp. linguistics program. One of the case studies we looked at was lying-- the data sets were comparing legal cases where documents were available that contradicted testimony, like the Enron case.) Edit: Here's a research paper that talks about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/
  • tinkertamper 7y ago
    Where can I read more on this?
    • asdf21 7y ago
      A masters program in forensics..
    • ineedasername 7y ago
      I don't remember the source of the material when I took the class, but it's been built upon since then. Here's one example that used the Enron corpus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/
  • btrask 7y ago
    > When someone is lying, the passive voice is a very common choice of words. The passive voice was used to write this sentence.
    • ineedasername 7y ago
      In your comment, yes; In my comment, no. You can use the passive voice detector to examine it: https://datayze.com/passive-voice-detector.php https://datayze.com/passive-voice-detector.php Fun fact: That detector uses zombies!