Thread:RaijinRising/@comment-27121579-20160127212825/@comment-24891101-20160128044040

Copula restrictions are actively counterproductive to training writing skill.

Passive voice is preferred. I love it and occasionally go out of my way to use it (often deploying that line right there), just to irritate people who hate it or crusade against it in any context, because fuck Strunk and White with a rusty pen. I'm an engineer. It's preferred in any technical writing. And deattribution of agency is often desireable in general.

I instictively mistrust those who do not use the Oxford comma.