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We find English Prime strange

We find English Prime strange

Thrax Robert Hallock 5 Jan, 2009 at 10:52am ET Article published in Tech

Known as E-Prime, this bizzaro-land form of English (someone was bored) banishes all derivatives of “to be.”

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Comments

  1. MachineDog
    5 Jan 2009 ~ 11:16am MachineDog I like it. :o
  2. Garg
    5 Jan 2009 ~ 11:24am Garg If I was an English teacher, I'd have my students write at least one assignment in E-Prime.
  3. Thrax
    5 Jan 2009 ~ 11:30am Thrax This post's title was brought to you in E-Prime-o-vision.
  4. Snarkasm
    5 Jan 2009 ~ 12:43pm Snarkasm /me begins to use E-Prime.

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