question. we have been referring to eprime (eliminating the copula: the verb to

question. we have been referring to eprime (eliminating the copula: the verb to be), so that people could use the literature on eprime to understand how to do it. But the problem is, referencing that literature produces strange externalities because of the sequence of thinkers that went into defining it. All of whom amounted to nothing, and eprime was the only meaningful result of their works.

should we just drop eprime reference and instead refer to ‘dropping the copula’ or ‘eliminating the verb to be’ and explaining it?