thread: 2011-02-07 : Grammatical Voices
On 2011-02-07, Vincent wrote:
Ed (1): Nuts. To you I say nuts!
That is, it's obviously true that people also use passive voice to foreground, declare as the topic, or focus attention on, an element of the sentence that happens to be the patient rather than the agent of an action. I don't deny that. I just think that of all the babies in all the bathwaters in the world, it isn't one we'd miss.
Or whatever. Just don't try to frickin' tell me that Buffy The Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game's erratic, malformed construction is somehow any good at all.
Ed (2): Damn! I've underpedanted myself!
What's the difference between a mood and a voice?
