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Desrtopa comments on HP:MoR: request for Reliable Sources - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: gwern 24 June 2011 01:36AM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 24 June 2011 01:18:32PM 1 point [-]

I agree that passive voice has valid uses (my parents' admonitions didn't bother me just because I didn't want to be corrected,) but if you try to write stuff that scans well, I don't think you'll often err too far on the side of not using it.