User talk:Rddn

Me and my family have been going to the cross fork area for decades for deer hunting and as far as I have known the fires were accidental . When the Lackawanna lumber co closed everyone including the rail roads packed all there stuff nod rolled out of town .

Well, I stand by my comment that the phrase "was burned down" tends to indicate deliberate intent, and if the burning was by chance/accident, then one should simply say, "the town burned down"... NOT "the town was burned down". I don't know the exact grammatical rule/definition for my point, but "was burned" implies an 'agent' that actually did the burning (set it on fire). You can ask "it (the town) was burned by who?" or "who burned it?", whereas "the town burned" is pretty simple... it was the town that did the burning (became 'on fire'). Nobody asks "it burned by who?"... they could ask "it burned from what?". So, nitpick that it may seem to some... I was trying to suggest that someone who 'knows' (the source of the fires), since I don't, ought to edit the Cross Fork, Pennsylvania page and remove the "was" occurences. Rddn (talk) 08:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)