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Via Skype, Adam and I review a translation together during one of my 15-hour work days. We are stuck on one of those paragraph-long sentences by a Chinese academic.

Adam: “Passive voice is like hiding the ball.”

Megan: “No one acts. Instead, everyone, everything is acted upon. Maybe it makes sense that many Chinese write this way.”

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