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Grammar Nazis declare war on the passive voice

By Benjamin Ossoff
Grammar Nazi

Cheers rang out from Alphabet Square yesterday as a war against the passive voice in writing and speech was announced by Grammatical Correctness Fuehrer Arianne Nations to her followers. “No longer will the complacent reception of the verb’s actions by the subject be tolerated by us!” She cried. “Let the abusers of our glorious language be warned, you cannot be hidden forever and you will be found by us!” Since the announcement GC loyalists ranging from university professors to plumbers to that creepy guy who sits outside local Subways and follows cust o m e r s a r o u n d h a v e been seen in books t o r e s and on s t r e e t c o r n e r s a r m e d w i t h duct tape or red Sharpies. T h o s e p e o p l e caught speaking in the incorrect voice are being silenced and those offending sentences from books are being ma r k e d out. Repeat lang u a g e o f f e n d - ers have faced having an “F” branded on their f o r e - heads or on the title- pages of their p a p e r s . Also, tom a t o e s were thrown at the band Maroon 5 in protest of the passive song “She Will Be Loved.” At an emergency meeting of the United Nerds Institute of Quebec’s Upper Extremities (UNIQUE), great urgency was to be found in the faces and attitudes of its members. “We must take action now,” proclaimed Dr. Trevor Northrup, head of the General Assembly, to the anxious delegates. “If we don’t, these absolutist fanatics will leave nothing behind save ruin and confused victims.” Northrup’s sentiments were applauded by many, but sizable minorities were either apathetic, or the whole situation was thought to be “just silly.”