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by whatshisface 2043 days ago
>Passive voice can be used to omit the doer of the action, which is preferable when the action itself is the focus.

Behold, the most important thing to know about business writing:

>Chris broke the build.

>The build was broken.

3 comments

"The team decided to let chris break the build." ;)
Still to finger-pointy. Try "a build breakage occurred".
"The set of broken expanded to include the build."
Jesus.

We Chrises can never get a break... unless its the build. -_-