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 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 10:21 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank, > > > > Please ask that language-teaching daughter of yours if “impersonal” is a > “voice”. >
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