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What an odd way to phrase that
8 upvotes, 3 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "What an odd way to phrase that"
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Anonymous 7w

Passive voice is weird. They likely don’t know who’s holding the journalist. NPR says Iraqi security forces say they arrested one of the kidnappers

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

I was thinking more of “journalist holding us citizenship”, but unattributed passive-voice sentence construction also grinds my gears

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

Ohhhh. NPR said she’s American but also said she’s Rome-based. Maybe the initial reports didn’t know whether she was a dual citizen or something

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