Busted!
But I intended no subterfuge, old chap. Every now and then I reply to a post
and my system picks another source email address; normally the listserve chucks
it out, but this one got through.
Chris
> On 24 Dec 2015, at 15:33, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hum. .... the wee photos supplied with mail on my MB Air tell me that this
> piclibster fellow is our own Chris Barker. Apparently, in an effort not to
> seem quite so pedantic, he has generated another email address to conceal
> his identity.
>
> Busted!! Or did I just start paying attention?
>
> <g>
>
> Agreed: Active voice provides substance and clarity and a sense of, well,
> activity. <g> My gripe with active voice centers on first-person
> narratives, and then it's not really the voice, it's the careless writer.
> All those pesky "i's" littering the landscape offend me. Writing in
> first-person active requires attention to detail. Active voice provides a
> much greater range of expression than passive, but, I believe, is harder to
> pull off in first-person narrative for the simple reason that it requires
> thoughtful effort not to rely on the ever-willing-to-volunteer "I".
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