[FRIAM] Abducktion

[Frank Wimberly]

Those French!  They have a word for everything!  Apologies to Steve
Martin.  I think, as your translations demonstrate, English also has
impersonal constructions.  But I think we use them less.  They're probably
correct that we're excessively assertive.  And we know what they think of
Germans.

"Mistakes were made" is simply the passive voice and, like in Spanish,
introduces ambiguity.

In my opinion.

Frank
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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 10:21 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank,
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> Please ask that language-teaching daughter of yours if “impersonal” is a
> “voice”.
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