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From: | Richard Riley |
Subject: | Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:30:49 -0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes: >> Then I would have to write "I varied the parameters and ran the test >> again." That just doesn't strike me as good style for a technical >> paper. > > Why not? > >> The point is not who did it but that it was done. What difference >> would it make if a monkey did it, as long as he did it right? > > But you were talking about style, not content. > I just concerned about why the parameters were perturbed. Were they not being paid enough?
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