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The Passive Voice
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From: [email protected] (Paraic O'Donnell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Anyone Coming for an Indian Takeaway?
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 04:44:33 GMT, [email protected] (Dave Wilton)
wrote:
[Context callously shorn].
>I place the semen in the
>salad dressing in the contaminated food category.
Gosh, for a moment there, I thought you meant...well, anyway:
sometimes the passive voice is your friend.
Paraic "placing semen in the first person is notoriously risky"
O'Donnell
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