I'm a big fan of the English language coming upon it as I did suddenly and without warning in the first grade. I make no claim to expertise, but I do try to follow some of the simple rules the nuns taught us in grammar school.
The first rule was use words so that anyone reading them would immediately understand your meaning. I smile when I think how innocent I was then. I couldn't know that in my dotage, I would be outraged by professional semantists doing exactly that.
From an article in the New York Post via Ace:
... that was lost along with nearly 3,000 lives when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.
Color me cranky.
and PS: I hate Blogger's new format.
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Passive voice is almost always an adomination, particularly when it obscures the actor.
Politicians, particularly those on the left, seemingly think in passive voice.
(And that is before you get to the euthanizing effect that passive voice almost always has on writing.)
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