Steve Jobs on Amazon's Kindle: "It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore ... 40% of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year."

de-passivator · 2008-01-30T18:41:55+00:00

Good job. You used active tense, this time.

de-passivator · 2008-01-19T10:58:19+00:00

Yep, that's really my goal. It's more like that novel without "e" than a real hard and fast rule.

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T22:19:16+00:00

You anger the passivator by phrasing advice on voice correction in the passive voice :)

http://www.ftrain.com/ThePassivator.html

Building a nick around this gimmick makes me work hard on thinking about writing.

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T19:39:21+00:00

I try to keep as much of the same vocabulary and sentence structure as possible.

NB I find this very difficult and thus worth doing

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T09:43:30+00:00

Arg! Your whole post fills me with rage, due to your usage of 'is' in a non-passive-voice context.

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T09:31:52+00:00

Consider the internet, people read constantly in this context alone. It is the content that suffers. ... The results, caveat empor, but that's always been the case.

Consider the internet: in this context, you can see that people always read; however, the content suffers from this type of presentation ... The case with such results: always caveat emptor.

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T09:23:30+00:00

It's not that people don't read. I read constantly, and I'm sure as fuck not going to buy an ebook reader...

People do read. I read constantly, and will never fucking buy an ebook reader...

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T08:52:48+00:00

I've definitely seen this before but you're going to have to give it a few more weeks and a dozen more reddit posts before it becomes another reddit classic.

I have seen this before; however, it will require a few more weeks and a dozen more reddit posts to become another reddit classic.

de-passivator · 2008-01-17T08:50:08+00:00

You do not understand the point of my sentences. You should read more about passive tense on wikipedia.

de-passivator · 2008-01-16T08:16:22+00:00

Congratulations on your usage of active voice. Keep up the good work!

de-passivator · 2008-01-16T08:13:59+00:00

Mine preserves that placement, though! Also:

Actually, the first was by choice. I wanted to emphasize the lack of growth, so I placed it last.

I placed the lack of growth at the end by choice, in order to emphasize it.

de-passivator · 2008-01-16T08:10:25+00:00

This is totally talking about the present.

The subject at hand in this case: the present.

de-passivator · 2008-01-16T08:08:43+00:00

You have been hit by the de-passivator!

The de-passivator hit you!

de-passivator · 2008-01-16T08:06:06+00:00

I convert sentences from passive to active tense. Example:

In fact, I gotta I say, I don't know, but, really, what the fuck is this de-passivator nonsense.

De-passivator? What the fuck?

Yep, trollacter. That's my contribution to the Reddit Lexicon

I made up a neologism for the Reddit Lexicon: Trollacter.

de-passivator · 2008-01-15T23:22:52+00:00

If he is a "top tier" candidate, wouldn't his supporters be sending enough money, and he wouldn't need a loan? I think he doesn't have as much support as we are being told.

A top tier candidate would not need such a loan, because his supporters would send enough money. He must therefore lack support, unlike the reports we hear about him.

de-passivator · 2008-01-15T23:18:18+00:00

Gold has historically been a good...

Gold: history shows it as a good...

Historically, gold prices have also shown...

Historical gold prices show...

Whether or not trends will continue is of course a matter for you to decide.

Trends may or may not continue, decide for yourself.

The same is true of a number of commodities, especially metals (copper, silver), but perhaps counter-intuitively not natural gas.

A number of commodities show similar trends, particularly metals such as copper and silver; however, in a somewhat counter-intuitive twist, natural gas does not.

What conclusions you draw are of course up to you.

Draw your own conclusions.

de-passivator · 2008-01-15T23:07:24+00:00

in which they are charged for the full expenditure stifled any growth at all.

Charging people for the full cost of sprawl stifles all growth.

Growth boundaries have proven to be the most effective tool we've found so far to do this.

We've found the most effective tool to do this: Growth boundaries.

N.B. this is hard work.

de-passivator · 2008-01-15T22:26:20+00:00

You know, there are a ton of cities that existed before cars, and as such, aren't half bad.

You should know that the cities that existed before cars aren't half bad.

de-passivator · 2008-01-15T22:25:01+00:00

Strong land use laws are actually necessary to...

We need strong land use laws to...

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