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FWIW, the passive voice is completely natural in spoken English. Otherwise, you wouldn't have admonishments against it in style guides and English teachers wouldn't be slicing thro…

The author is a linguist where passive has a technical definition and implicitly wishes that people would use some other word for what they have an issue with.

the author is linguist using linguistic terms

the article is literally going through the technical definition of passive voice

Uh I mean he's a linguistics professor. People are misusing "passive voice" when describing something they don't like and of course the linguist is going to get ornery about it. If…

Do you have more specific things/resources to learn that would be more useful?

why would the sugar industry fund a study that says that HFCS is bad?

ebikes, though a bit more expensive, make getting over the hills in even SF doable

Sorry for hijacking your response but I have a question that you might know the answer to: how did using compilers work back in the punch card days? Say I write a deck of FORTRAN c…

There's also https://github.com/ggez/ggez for Rust specifically.

That's still 6 weeks of salary the author misses out on

At face value, their attempts to defend the Recurse Center are largely backfiring. It makes the Recurse Center seem harsher and stricter than even a traditional university course. …

I'm trying to run through this exercise right now. Is it bad to have too many adverbs at one time? Whatabout adverbs that might contradict? Or is it fine to just get a few, no matt…

In most (all?) universities/colleges in America a double major doesn’t cost extra financially. You might have to give up taking more electives in one or the other programs however.…

SICP is going nowhere at Berkeley. Take a gander at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a.html (Brian Harvey at Cal is synonymous with 61A) and note: "Starting with the latter, in 201…