charghwI' wrote:
>
>I hope this helps some. In English, we depend so much on "to
>be". For those who have never heard of it, there is an
>artificially created dialect of Engllish called "E-prime" which
>is exactly like English, except that it uses no form of the
>verb "to be". Try it out sometime. Don't try to speak it. You
>will fail. Instead, write it and expect to edit your writing a
>lot.
>
>Meanwhile, things written in E-Prime contain a greater richness
>in attention to the quality of the conveyance of honest
>thought. One describes what one senses, without lazy and often
>inaccurate judgements about the nature of things. One does not
>casually speak of the future with presumptions and promises as
>likely forgotten as kept. One merely states what one observes
>and suggests what one believes. One respects the listener to be
^^^
!!!!
>capable of reaching their own conclusions about the nature of
>things.
>
>That last paragraph was written in E-Prime. This one isn't.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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