E-Prime: The Spirit and the Letter
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Description: Essay. Argues that some common E-Prime constructions ignore the spirit of E-Prime.
E-prime: The Spirit and the Letter by Ralph Kenyon Ever since I first read about E-prime, I have made an analogy with the familiar distinction between the letter of the law and its spirit. I make a similar distinction in the use (and misuse) of E-prime. One can use E-prime by conforming to the letter of its prescription to not use any form of the verb 'to be'
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| Page title: | E-prime: The Spirit and the Letter by Ralph Kenyon |
| Keywords: | E-Prime,General Semantics,philosophy of language |
| Description: | E-Prime: The Spirit and the Letter, 1993, Etc.: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 49 No. 2, Summer 1992. (Reprinted with corrections in More E-Prime: To be or Not II, edited by Paul Dennithorne Johnston, D. David Bourland, Jr., and Jeremy Klein, International Society for General Semantics, 1994) |
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