http://www.madprime.org en-us 40 Well, first of all, FYI, i m color-blind and i would like to say that u actually do not need to feel guilty at all when you speak of color-blindness as a deficiency or deform because the discovery of tetrachromacy in human population indicating that even the "self-proclaimed normal" people (normal trichomacy) are just another group of people with disability (tho they are the majoty in human population currently) compared with the tetrachromats who can see a lot more colors! Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:57:29 +0100 urn:uuid:3684fa5b-6e0d-4134-95e8-a84b097c795c http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/08/04/color-blindness#comment-3322 I've always thought the injunction against the passive voice is idiotic. In high school, my English literature teacher gave us an assignment at the beginning of the semester to write an essay about Martin Luther King. She gave us a premade outline, and was very clear that any essay which included any passive voice would fail. The first sentence of her outline said "born 1929". Assuming that this was a trick, the first inane sentence of my essay read "Martin Luther King came into this world in 1929." I got an A-. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:57:17 +0100 urn:uuid:6e37054e-32dc-448f-86e6-cc80764da3e1 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/07/14/passive-aggressive#comment-3321 Thank you for telling me this! I suspected this but doubted myself because he was acting so "expert" about it. I'll try to be more confident in the future. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:22:58 +0100 urn:uuid:16ae11b7-6039-4498-a8d8-c003b7ee122b http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/07/14/passive-aggressive#comment-3320 Interestingly, not one of the changes you quoted used passive voice in either the original or the replacement. It seems this guy believes using the verb "to be" in any of its forms means using passive voice, which is patently false. I absolutely agree with you that all the examples are clearer and easier to read in the "before" forms than with the changes the guy made. And that his use of "pertained to" was just bad. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:40:59 +0100 urn:uuid:1874d8f8-697d-47ea-a77b-65f346deb6d8 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/07/14/passive-aggressive#comment-3318 I love this!! Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:01:21 +0100 urn:uuid:3c61a16c-b292-45ab-9594-9f72a6987493 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/04/06/powers-of-life#comment-3316 I MUST be old! Kareem was the only one I recognized fr Obama video. Too bad, considering most voters are 35-59 yo. Were it not for u, there is no way I could believe HillBilly's vid was real. Horrible. Absolutely pathetic attempts to persuade younger voters--- and I love it!! Sun, 18 May 2008 07:08:02 +0100 urn:uuid:83110730-8ae4-4861-b3a8-50c5c14f8835 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/02/12/random-links#comment-3313 Beautiful, reminds me of that great film on "Powers of ten" Wed, 14 May 2008 18:08:55 +0100 urn:uuid:215702c3-245d-461b-9fb4-98cccd5f01e4 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/04/06/powers-of-life#comment-3312 That's actually funny! Sun, 11 May 2008 06:44:47 +0100 urn:uuid:4dcd9ee3-a971-4fc9-b553-f178e3a49bc7 http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/04/21/lol#comment-3311 for Adam Dyer... I LOVED what you wrote. I echo every word you wrote. I began reading C.S. Lewis books on Christianity and he talked about bios and zoe. My search is leading to excitement to say the very least. Christ is all in all. I could jump for true joy, our GOD reigns. He is humble to boot!!!! Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:06:52 +0100 urn:uuid:d950687b-b36b-4e7c-b022-f5406d6fdaab http://www.madprime.org/articles/2006/03/15/bios-and-zoe#comment-3308 lol :) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:39:04 +0100 urn:uuid:4790267a-f401-4e6e-bc6e-805ad78de74f http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/04/21/lol#comment-3307