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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:33 am
by SandChigger
I am increasingly bored by the continuing war on the passive.
Some sections of the department use the APA stylesheet, which I believe completely forbids the passive. Stupid.
The gerund and participle (yes, they are different!
) one might be a bit excessive as well. There are times when the progressive is called for.
"I'm currently running a series of simulations of blah blah blah."
"I run computer simulations of blah blah blah for a living."
(Oh, by the way, got "Safari could not open the page “
http://bb.solahpmo.com/posting.php?mode=reply&t=976” because the server is not responding." when I first tried posting this.
)
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:26 am
by Omphalos
SandChigger wrote:I am increasingly bored by the continuing war on the passive.
That is one of my greatest problems. Its like I was born to write in the passive.
Think I'm going to put Strunk & White's in the pile and re-read it sometime.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:33 pm
by SandChigger
Like anything else, it's the overuse = abuse that's the problem. Moderation in all things....
Forbidding something entirely because it might be abused is such a stupid, knee-jerk reaction. And a sign of little minds.
What does that say for the APA.
(I'm sure we can find you something better than S&W.
)
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:30 am
by Omphalos
SandChigger wrote:(I'm sure we can find you something better than S&W.
)
For the last ten or so years I have had to use the Blue Book for legal writing. I'm afraid I dont remember anything else. What is wrong with Strunk & White, and what would you suggest?
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:14 pm
by SandChigger
Let me get back to you on that.
(Mainly, they're OLD.
)
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:53 pm
by The Phantom
I always got pissed when MS Word always highlighted passive sentences as if they were a grammatical error. STFU microsoft! if i wanna use passive voice I'm going to. Then i realized I could disable that rule... and he did.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:02 pm
by GamePlayer
What else did
he do?
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:56 pm
by SandChigger
We are not alone?
Or, at least, B.B. isn't. Inside his head.
Freaky weird. Canadian.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:30 am
by The Phantom
i hate you both
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:06 pm
by SandChigger
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:44 pm
by GamePlayer
Baraka Bryan wrote: i hate you both
What the hell are you doing up at this hour young man? Get to bed!
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:46 pm
by The Phantom
GamePlayer wrote:Baraka Bryan wrote: i hate you both
What the hell are you doing up at this hour young man? Get to bed!
wow the new board times are screwed up... my clock currently says 11:32pm.. which makes it 3h46m off...
so that means i typed that at 8:15ish this morning...
makes sense. that seems more typical of one of my morning posts... i'm always more hateful when i've just gotten up
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:50 pm
by GamePlayer
So, what are you doing up at near midnight on a weekday?
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:54 pm
by The Phantom
GamePlayer wrote:So, what are you doing up at near midnight on a weekday?
too pissed off to go to bed yet...
(i'm hateful at night too
)
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:46 am
by SandChigger
Timestamp test!
(Poo poo, poody-tat, poo!)
Board says 7:46 PM, but my ultra-exacto super watch says 7:33, so it's about 13 mins fast for me.
That's about right, same as it was before the upgrade.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:54 am
by Eyes High
why the time difference in mins?
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:40 am
by Omphalos
Eyes High wrote:why the time difference in mins?
local machines are just set differently. People forget to set the time, or the machine loses or gains time and becomes inaccurate.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:39 am
by Freakzilla
I recently discovered that time goes slower in my Caddy. I left my watch:
Timex Expedition E-Compass™
http://www.timex.com/gp/product/B000CD2 ... Brand=core
...in it for a couple of weeks, since I've been driving my Ford Minivan. I got my watch out and it was a few days and several minutes slow.
I've had it for years and never had to reset it but for daylight savings time and changing the battery.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:21 pm
by SandChigger
Driving FTL again, eh?
(Maybe it's time to change the battery again. Or get a new watch?
)
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:38 pm
by A Thing of Eternity
SandChigger wrote:Driving FTL again, eh?
(Maybe it's time to change the battery again. Or get a new watch?
)
Or he just parked next to a gravity well.
Re: Great article on editing
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:57 pm
by SandChigger
That's ... deep.