E- prime. Language without certainty?

Gary L

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCIqFAdI6eI

Pulled from Wikipedia;

E-Prime (short for English-Prime) is a form of the English language from which the verb to be in all its forms is avoided by the writer or speaker. Thus, E-Prime does not contain the words "be", "is", "am", "are", "was", "were", "been" and "being", nor does it contain their contractions "'m", "'s", and "'re". E-Prime therefore re-phrases most statements which use the passive voice, thus encouraging writers and speakers to clearly state an action's agent. E-Prime can be based on any dialect of English.
Some people use E-Prime as a mental discipline to filter speech and translate the speech of others. For example, the sentence "the movie was good" could translate into E-Prime as "I liked the movie" or as "the movie made me laugh". The E-Prime versions communicate the speaker's experience rather than judgment, making it harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact.


Bourland and other advocates also suggest that use of E-Prime leads to a less dogmatic style of language that reduces the possibility for misunderstanding and for conflict.

Joe1919

Notice that maybe there is an absurdity/paradox in the videos first sentence.
'E-prime IS English without the use of ..'is'.........