I've always suspected that the anti-passive prejudice was motivated  
primarily by a desire to avoid seeming "passive."  Too bad we didn't  
call it something else . . .

Peter Adams


On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Edgar Schuster wrote:

> Craig may well be right about Orwell's sentiments; however, Orwell  
> himself near the end of his essay offers a set of six "rules" (the  
> word is his).  His fourth rule is "Never use the passive where you  
> can use the active."  He doesn't say "where you can use the active"  
> but not the passive.  But he uses passives in four of the first 15  
> sentences of "Politics," and it's not at all difficult to  
> substitute actives for each them.
> Hurrah for Craig's "we need a more functional orientation to  
> language so that choice can be built on something more than  
> personal or group prejudice."
>
> Ed Schuster
>
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