# Valete, Vox Imperatoris

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419 "2009-01-22T06:23:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/91 "2009-01-23T13:28:23Z")

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> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#):
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> Not this again! In the other thread about this exact same subject, **Ed Zotti** personally came out and okayed a one- or two-line signature as an acceptable exception to the one-sig-per-thread rule.
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> Valete,  
> Vox Imperatoris

The fact that **Ed** gave you permission doesn’t have diddly to do with the fact that a small but vocal minority of us find it annoying as hell.

The good news is that by continuing to use it, you continue to remind me, for one, that you’re a little twit who’s in over his head here. Otherwise I might be in danger of forgetting that.

No, wait, I wouldn’t, not with posts like this:

> [@Writing: What is "voice" and "tone"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-what-is-voice-and-tone/482469/5):
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> Voice is also the category into which “active” and “passive” fall.
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> Valete,  
> Vox Imperatoris

in a Cafe Society thread on “voice” and “tone” in written prose.

:rolleyes:

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