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Weetabix · 01-09-2008, 04:44 PM

In what country do you live, and from what country did you originate?

Actually, I've given it a try for about the last 5 years, though I began dabbling with it around 1995 when a colleague gave me David Bourland's 1989 paper to read.

I don't know that I'd agree that e-prime leads to conciseness because it leads you to express yourself more fully, leaving less to "the assumption of something understood" as you so aptly put it.

I agree, wholeheartedly, that it enables greater clarity. That greater clarity has sometimes gotten me into trouble as I express things previously left unemphasised.

01-09-2008, 04:44 PM	#11 (permalink)
Weetabix Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 23	In what country do you live, and from what country did you originate? Actually, I've given it a try for about the last 5 years, though I began dabbling with it around 1995 when a colleague gave me David Bourland's 1989 paper to read. I don't know that I'd agree that e-prime leads to conciseness because it leads you to express yourself more fully, leaving less to "the assumption of something understood" as you so aptly put it. I agree, wholeheartedly, that it enables greater clarity. That greater clarity has sometimes gotten me into trouble as I express things previously left unemphasised.