The Banishment of the existential verb
E-Prime.
This is how this linguistic discipline is called. Advocates contend that the idea of being perpetuates the assumption that things are, thus they do not change and stay the same.
Abandoning "to be" changes the logical structure of the language, thus the logical structure of thought as well.
Passive statements obscure who did what in an event, E-Prime force the inclusion of an "observer" to the event, objects and people reacquire identity and their own participation to an event.
I do not quite grasp this unless I see it. "To be" seems essential to most English constructs. Is there anything written at all without using some form of it. Any book out there written in E-Prime.
Do you E-Prime?
This is how this linguistic discipline is called. Advocates contend that the idea of being perpetuates the assumption that things are, thus they do not change and stay the same.
Abandoning "to be" changes the logical structure of the language, thus the logical structure of thought as well.
Passive statements obscure who did what in an event, E-Prime force the inclusion of an "observer" to the event, objects and people reacquire identity and their own participation to an event.
I do not quite grasp this unless I see it. "To be" seems essential to most English constructs. Is there anything written at all without using some form of it. Any book out there written in E-Prime.
Do you E-Prime?
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