Re: Offending People's Minds

From: Sunah Cherwin (slippery@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Aug 24 1996 - 18:14:55 MDT


I said:
>
Try, it, dude! I recommend setting a good example if you want to see more
E-prime. My friend and I tried it for ten minutes last month and found that
there

<b>was</b>

some major part of English that didn't have much to with identity that we
couldn't use. Oh, yeah, the present and past continuous. E-prime, like many
limits, has benefit for thinking about the limits, but I prefer a subset
that doesn't cut out any tenses. (See, I did it. I think.)

I looked at this paragraph a LOT, but missed that one:

My friend and I tried it for ten minutes last month and found that we
couldn't use some major part of English that didn't have much to do with
identity.

God, I love editing.



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