e-standard in site - e-prime

Inch · 12-22-2005, 10:05 PM

I noticed a couple of things.

"Read these posts if you just discovered e-prime and/or would like to find out what it's all about." -> "Read these posts if you just discovered e-prime and/or would like to find out all about it."

"Good Morning, Inch.
T.G.I.F"

T.G.I.F = "Thank God it's Friday"?
Maybe T.G.F.F = "Thank God for Friday"

Karen · 05-09-2006, 02:22 AM

How about removing the 'it' from the statement by saying,

'Read these posts if you just discovered and would like to find out more about e-prime'. Karen

Wildway · 11-21-2006, 08:54 AM

Or, how about:

'Read these posts if you have just discovered e-prime and would like to find out more."

and

"T.G.F.T.A.O.F"="Thank God For The Arrival of Friday"

-Wildway
(going nutso with e-p today)

Michael · 01-17-2007, 07:38 PM

"New or intrigued? Read here."

"I.L.F"

I love Fridays!

Chinmay · 02-29-2008, 05:30 AM

Why has one given the welcome message in standard English when one advocates about e-prime always.I feel the site owner should convert each and every element in this site into e-prime.Like, Look down at the left hand bottom corner, Posting rules How many instances of the 'forbidden verb' do u see there?and the time boottom most.

Karen · 02-29-2008, 12:50 PM

Good eye Chinmay, I believe you have made a great point.

Chinmay · 03-01-2008, 04:53 AM

Sorry for the bold red words, I always believe in animating our thoughts and the way we present it.Hence my font formatting and colours.By the way, Urdu uses the forbidden verb in some form doesn't it?

Chinmay · 03-02-2008, 12:51 PM

The site appears preloaded with some default settings and these include many instances of the to be verb.Not only this site, but all sites containing forums have this problem.Solutions seem to alter this or create a new template

Karen · 03-03-2008, 04:14 AM

I don't believe that the creators of the e-prime site have much knowledge of the meaning of e-prime as they do of IT systems. I would enjoy seeing this site as a full blown e-prime site. I wish people would send their office memos for standardizing in e-prime so that we all have a chance to work on our e-prime. I would enjoy taking the responsibility for taking a great portion of the editing. I only see this as an opportunity for everyone.

Marcio_Osorio · 03-04-2008, 05:07 PM

Should office memos necessarily start with mentioning another office memo's date? Most of the office memos I type do not contain references to any significant date or dated memo.

At the government-owned hospital I work, even desk-to-desk memos may contain overelaborate sentences, appear full of "bells and whistles" or seem overly cutesy. As long as he does not have fingers pointing at him, a guy may resort to lenghty, long-winded, invectives and still load them with passive verbs just to say or "inform" that all his ducks can swim.

"With renewed praise to your honorable, radiant semblance, we hereby come to inform you that we have today adopted the measures we should have adopted a long time ago bla, bla, bla," reads one such interdepartmental government office memo. "With equally renewed praise to your most honorable, radiant semblance, we hereby acknowledge receipt of your memo but thank you for the measures adopted. We now beg to go if you will let us." Yes, the wording takes some getting used to. As it does today. Earlier letters, however, went so far as to digress in excess of what they really meant. They might have gone longer than this pragraph!

Karen · 03-05-2008, 03:06 AM

How magically expressed........In Pakistan, we only go so far as to say, 'please due the needful'. I always wondered what people meant when they wrote, the needful......the word itself exemplifies vagueness and then when people don't spell out what they mean by the needful and expect that you will understand, or that the word itself has a 'knowing' understanding, I really get concerned for the person whose left with the responsibility to due that 'needful'. When consequences result, the person who wrote, 'do the needful' walks away scott free. When making reference to another person's memo, using the date that you received the memo makes it easy for the other person to retrieve their mail they sent to you. I would always recommend you use a date. Begin it by saying, In reference to your memo sent on ...........(date) Have a good day....K

Marcio_Osorio · 03-09-2008, 10:58 AM

Karen, I think that you might have rewritten this part of your post:

"... concerned for the person whose left with the responsibility..."

if you so desired.

Karen · 03-09-2008, 02:02 PM

I need guidance in what you mean to the above statement, (need clarity)..........my favorite word.

Marcio_Osorio · 03-09-2008, 07:15 PM

Does your "... whose left..." mean "... who is left..."?

Karen · 03-10-2008, 02:36 AM

Well done Marcio, you have caught my writing error. Yes, that 'whose' definitely means, who is. It should have read, who gets left with the responsibility. You have made me proud.

Please post some of your memos to me asap. My workshop commences on the 12th of March and I would like to put your work on transparencies. Many thanks ahead of time. K