Great dissection of the apology, particularly the passive voice construction and wiggle words.
In contrast, the passive voice is used exclusively to describe the people they barged in on and insulted: fandom is little more than feelings that "were evoked" and offense that was caused, resulting in feedback that wasn't even directly given, but rather simply "received" by Ogi and Sai (hardly anything exists unless it involves them).
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Date: 2009-09-04 11:14 pm (UTC)In contrast, the passive voice is used exclusively to describe the people they barged in on and insulted: fandom is little more than feelings that "were evoked" and offense that was caused, resulting in feedback that wasn't even directly given, but rather simply "received" by Ogi and Sai (hardly anything exists unless it involves them).
So on-target!