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>>alexho+(OP)
Not enough people know this, but when you say "etc" out loud in reference to the directory, it is supposed to sound like "etsy".

I expect there will be people who reply to this comment to argue it should be "E-T-C" or "Et Cetera". You can ignore those people; they probably say "exclamation mark" instead of "bang".

>>IvyMik+oe
You should go, say, six months, in which you never use “suppose” in the passive voice. Whenever you feel the inclination to say “it is supposed...” or “you're supposed to...”, force yourself to rephrase your sentence in the active voice. This requires, of course, that you find a supposer, and name him. At that point you will discover what it is you're really trying to say.

>>numero+Rq
> Not enough people know this, but when you say "etc" out loud in reference to the directory, you should say "etsy".

Not really a big difference in meaning or tone, if you ask me.

>>IvyMik+T51
You didn't use “suppose”.

>>numero+mj1
Can't you just tell me what you suppose [1] I was "really trying to say"? As it is, your point is over my head.

[1] Ha!

>>IvyMik+5n1
Numeromancer suggested that you rewrite your sentence which uses "suppose" in passive voice, into active voice.

It is a school exercise at least in some European countries. It is a syntactic transformation of the sentence. Depending on the verb and other factors, the transformation preserves meaning, but sometimes it brings up a subject which was not clear in the original sentence in passive voice.

Thus, Numeromancer is suggesting a way for you to reflect on the scope of authority by using a syntactic transformation.