[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 07:40:37 UTC 2012


On 8 March 2012 07:13, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:00 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

>> So, yeah, things are on hold essentially because there are more urgent
>> things to do, and because given the rather extraordinary scale of the
>> debate and all of the controversy, serious reconsideration of our
>> original proposal has been requested.

> I love corporate speak. "has been requested" Er, Who requsted what?
> And precisely by which means and avenues?! This screams for a
> need for clarification.!!!!


Passive voice is indeed problematic here. What would that sentence
look like in active voice?


- d.




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