Germanic English is personal while Latinate English conceals agency

Evidence

The Germanic stratum of English stresses the active voice of ich; it is personal and transitive. Latin-based constructions yield agency to abstractions, camouflage the speaker’s voice in passive or intransitive verbs. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2401

Categorization

• XREF: The abstract/impersonal linguistic shift echoes how the blinded citizens lose the grammar of concrete agency, speaking instead about impersonal abstractions.