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To: Eleutheria5
If you read facsimiles of newspapers/diaries of the 19th Century, you’ll see that the passive voice was then the goal. We’ve sped up the pace with a preference for the active voice—but I don’t know when the trend began.

I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout ‘em Middle Eastern ways ‘a talkin’.

:-)

400 posted on 04/21/2007 7:40:35 PM PDT by bannie
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To: bannie

bannie... are you in Israel?


403 posted on 04/22/2007 12:07:55 AM PDT by carton253 (I've cried tears and stayed the same.)
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To: bannie
Here's the Twisted Pencil to start off a new day.
405 posted on 04/22/2007 6:13:33 AM PDT by squarebarb
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