Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readAug 2, 2021

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I smiled the whole time reading this, which I rarely experience for a full story on Medium. That itself warrants a huge thank you and expression of appreciation from me.

When you mentioned Arabic and how you usually use it to swear, I thought of this article which discusses that Arabic has 11 different words for love and how Arabic arose as a language for poetry. https://medium.com/illumination/expressions-i-wish-english-had-a7de1539e8f6

Regarding passive voice, I strive at avoid it. Not because proper grammar says I should, but simply because I find the active voice alternatives to almost any passive voice clause sound more powerful, direct, and pleasing. In the back of my mind, I suspect I had an English teacher in middle school who drummed loudly against passive voice. However, whether or not you, Nada, write in the passive voice, you write strongly and clearly.

As for Grammarly, it can go fuck itself. https://medium.com/technical-excellence/grammarly-errs-all-the-time-e4e602cd37ae

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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