From: "Russ P." <russ.paielli@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 15:57:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d89a97e7-5438-4661-8827-ebe75259dfea@h37g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sk0natmu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
On Oct 3, 1:50 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Jay Belanger <jay.p.belan...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Then I would have to write "I varied the parameters and ran the test
> >> again." That just doesn't strike me as good style for a technical
> >> paper.
>
> > Why not?
>
> The next test run used a different set of parameters.
Maybe, but I'm not sure. It seems to me that you've
anthropomorphisized the test run. The test run does not "use" the
parameters. The experimenter does. You could say, "The next test run
had a different set of parameters." But then you're back to passive
voice, or so it seems to me -- but what do I know?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-03 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-03 3:06 emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Xah Lee
2010-10-03 11:14 ` Uday Reddy
2010-10-03 19:29 ` Russ P.
2010-10-03 19:38 ` Jay Belanger
2010-10-03 20:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 22:57 ` Russ P. [this message]
2010-10-04 18:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-05 0:53 ` Russ P.
[not found] ` <ias317$dtr$2@reader1.panix.com>
2010-11-04 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 1:16 ` Sean Sieger
2010-12-10 16:04 ` ken
2010-10-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-10-03 22:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-10-04 6:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-05 4:02 ` B. T. Raven
2010-11-03 16:34 ` David Combs
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