e-prime - View Single Post - Taking the wind out of political speeches

Marcio_Osorio · 02-13-2008, 10:58 PM

"Into the trash would go volumes of political speeches [...]" -- Dr. Donald E. Simanek, Lock Haven University, on Reduced English.

In an E-Prime only environment, politicians would have to rethink their promises. The president of my country, a hardened, soft-talking politician himself, for example would have to re-educate his speeches and promises. Most of his "999" secretaries, as he calls them, would probably hem and haw over the microphone while attempting to pick up their lines.

I cannot imagine right now how else a vote-oriented speech maker would induce his or her voters to believe him or her without using the verb to be.

02-13-2008, 10:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
Marcio_Osorio Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Posts: 168	Taking the wind out of political speeches "Into the trash would go volumes of political speeches [...]" -- Dr. Donald E. Simanek, Lock Haven University, on Reduced English. In an E-Prime only environment, politicians would have to rethink their promises. The president of my country, a hardened, soft-talking politician himself, for example would have to re-educate his speeches and promises. Most of his "999" secretaries, as he calls them, would probably hem and haw over the microphone while attempting to pick up their lines. I cannot imagine right now how else a vote-oriented speech maker would induce his or her voters to believe him or her without using the verb to be.