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Conlangery #20: Ideophones

Conlangery Podcast

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The Power of Passive Voice in English

Don't listen to words, grammar, checker when it tells you to revise passive voice. Things that you were told by your English teacher about how it sounds weak or flimsy is BS. People complain about the passive but have incorrectly identified some other structure as the passive. And he says, if you say g'day and reply or in a future podcast, I will stab you in the face.

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