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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:46 PM Original message |
If DU disallowed normal English and enforced E-Prime, would it solve some problems? |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Haven't a clue. What are the problems? |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. This is from the Wikipedia article. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:24 AM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Because nothing says "less dogmatic" like decreeing the banishment of certain words. n/t |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 05:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
26. I think you meant "the Wikipedia article states this" |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. What is "E-Prime"? |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Like Prime Beef but a few magnitudes lower |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. E-Prime restricts English, creating another version of it. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. OMG! Those dimwitted assholes are rewriting Shakespeare!!!! |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:20 AM Response to Reply #7 |
22. So He Would Eliminate |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 06:32 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. No. Am, are, is, was, etc.. Verbs of "being" are from "to be"; do not include your list. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 06:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
29. kind of like newspeak |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. You would lose a great Shakespear quote |
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Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. "...or not..." |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. This thread is going places! |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. But what about my |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. Nah, one can still use derisive language in eprime. |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. It just ends up sounding |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Haha |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. or a professional resume writer. n/t |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I do not think that it will solve that problem n/t |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I find myself writing eprime most of the time. It does not shield you, either. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
16. Risible proposition nt |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
18. without problems, there would be no solutions |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
20. This is the kind of semantic nonsense, up with which, I shall not put. |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
21. So the attacks can be more clear? Ha. NO! /nt |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
24. Won't solve a thing. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 01:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. What about DUers? n/t |
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jp11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
28. Yes and create others. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
30. A kind of Twitterization of DU? |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 09:31 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I imagine that E-Prime would lengthen posts. n/t |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 10:02 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. I thought it was a kind of reductionism. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
31. K&U-Prime |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
32. It is a good idea, but no |
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Zephie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
34. I don't think that I could manage writing in E-Prime for extended periods of time |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
36. E-Prime is the whore sister of George Orwell's Doublespeak |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
37. Perhaps E-Prime training would help journalists provide more objective reporting. nt |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
38. A better solution is... |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. The first sentence of your post exemplifies what E-Prime seeks to avoid. |
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