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Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice

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Is There a Middle in English?

In English, the use is practically confined to being used with adverbs like well or easily. It sounds like it sounds like when a little kid doesn't want to you know, fess up. What happened to the window broke? Did you break it? It's broken. The window broke. Right. So people who tell you that the passive is used to hide agency have never learned about the middle. Hahahaha. Take that George Orwell.

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