[arduanika]

Sure, but he is packaging it in this superior snark. He is aggressively dismissing the very real thing that people actually mean when they say "avoid passive voice". A technical explainer on its own would be fine, but at least to my ears, this piece reads as narrow-minded and bitter.

[tptacek]

Their snark sounds superior because they are superior. It's Language Log.

[arduanika]

Huh, I don't know much about this site. Maybe I should. From reading up on the author, it looks like this is where they invented the term "snowclone", which is pretty cool I guess.

But this particular article rubs me the wrong way, for whatever reason. It just seems to miss the point.

[tptacek]

Hugely influential. The original and ur-English language linguistics site. Geoffrey Pullum & co.

Click around, you're in for a treat.

[arduanika]

Okay, I trust your recommendation. Maybe I'll come back to it in a couple days when I'm in a less grouchy mood.