E-prime builds on the assumption that everything we know about experience points to a dynamic ever changing world. Impermanence defines our world and if we want to expand our capacity to experience it, we need a language that matches the dynamic nature of it. By embracing the fluid nature of our world in the structure of our language we can more directly model our understanding of it in our thinking. In the past we had a very limited world view. We could not see past the horizon and concluded we lived on a flat planet. The visual horizon matched our capacity to see into time and space. We could not imagine a round world or geologic time.
I agree that you can go further in eliminating "to be". eric
From one of my posts on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/eprime
The english map.
E-prime builds on the assumption that everything we know about experience points to a dynamic ever changing world. Impermanence defines our world and if we want to expand our capacity to experience it, we need a language that matches the dynamic nature of it. By embracing the fluid nature of our world in the structure of our language we can more directly model our understanding of it in our thinking. In the past we had a very limited world view. We could not see past the horizon and concluded we lived on a flat planet. The visual horizon matched our capacity to see into time and space. We could not imagine a round world or geologic time.
I agree that you can go further in eliminating "to be". eric
Great way to use Roam!