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Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:35:31 2015 No.6851356 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: best usages of the passive voice

>He walked to the river. The river was there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:37:26 2015 No.6851366 >>6851356 >he was a faggot. The op was a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:45:17 2015 No.6851395 File: 2 KB, 125x125, 1436923431115s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851356 whose the squirt flirt

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:58:30 2015 No.6851447 >>6851356 I'm not supposed to fall in love tonight why there is always a faggot OP who reminds you that life can be unfair sometimes

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:01:33 2015 No.6851465 File: 46 KB, 1500x1383, Sad-i-know-that-feel-clean-l.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851447

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:03:46 2015 No.6851475 File: 29 KB, 650x318, 1437180864483.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851447 >>6851465 Room for one more?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:08:07 2015 No.6851492 I'd find it pretty sad if the genre-fiction-based advice against all use of passive voice somehow spilled over into others. ~ lol_cats_craddle (r/writing mod)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:11:39 2015 No.6851507 File: 36 KB, 200x146, 1398166696227.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851447 >>6851465 >>6851475

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:13:36 2015 No.6851513 >>6851507 >>6851475 >>6851465 >>6851447 If you're honestly that pathetic, then you are never going to have anything ever. And you deserve to live that way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:17:23 2015 No.6851528 >>6851356 That's not the passive voice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:17:35 2015 No.6851530 >>6851465 >>6851475 >>6851507 sad faggots

>>	CountFulkVTheYoung !!PRYXpFLytPX Sun Jul 19 22:23:00 2015 No.6851547 File: 134 KB, 519x600, bat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851447 >sometimes

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:33:33 2015 No.6851569 >>6851447 >>6851465 >>6851475 >>6851507 Let me guess: You sad sack losers are trying as hard to write as your hard-ons want and only want an imaginary qt meme girl.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:33:45 2015 No.6851571 >>6851447 What you think you have fallen 'in love' with is in actuality some abstraction of a girl that you produced to feel assured of your own self as a emotional fulfilled man. That's not what actual love is though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:34:59 2015 No.6851575 >>6851513 easy machoman that was a joke I'm getting 19 16 year old titties every day

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:41:03 2015 No.6851588 >Bacterial colonies were resuspended in 10 uL of a pH 7.0 Tris solution and were heated at 97 degrees C for 10 minutes.

>>	Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Sun Jul 19 22:41:38 2015 No.6851593 File: 425 KB, 1800x1198, hBuir2o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851507 those tiny arms are killing me holy shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:41:51 2015 No.6851595 >>6851492 It already has. The ebin Hemingway 'get rid of all words always' meme and the passive voice hatred are rife in amateur criticism. ~anon (e/lit/ist)

>>	CountFulkVTheYoung !!PRYXpFLytPX Sun Jul 19 22:42:32 2015 No.6851597 >>6851571 that's the point tho the abstraction isn't fulfilling, its frustrating because it remains a fantasy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:44:37 2015 No.6851599 Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything Wells had ever known or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:17:44 2015 No.6851696 >>6851356 >>6851599 that's not passive >>6851588 is the only one in this thread by whom the passive voice is understood.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:38:05 2015 No.6851760 >>6851571 that's not how abstraction works when you age the conceptual abstraction of women will boil down to pair of titties and a v that's it because the moment you realize this simple primal conception is the moment you break free from many spooks

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:22:26 2015 No.6852680 >>6851356 who's this semon demon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:26:12 2015 No.6852685 File: 2.87 MB, 320x240, giggle.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851447 >unironically not have a gf

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:38:11 2015 No.6852701 File: 178 KB, 1600x1075, 198.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6851575 >machoman

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:46:05 2015 No.6852720 >>6851575 probably shouldn't brag about dating someone born in 1916

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:47:48 2015 No.6852725 >>6851575 >I'm getting 19 16 year old titties every day wat

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:48:40 2015 No.6854141 >>6851575 That's an odd number of titties. Also, pedophilia.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:53:15 2015 No.6854159 >>6854141 thats not pedophillia you illiterate

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:53:30 2015 No.6854161 >>6852685 >unironically

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:55:29 2015 No.6854166 >>6852725 he stole a mummy from the museum

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:57:29 2015 No.6854171 >>6851356 In school papers I would always get knocked for writing in the passive voice too often when I wasn't even aware of it/it sounded just natural to me. Was pretty frustrating tbh