You shouldn’t try to use E-Prime in daily language. It’s just a strict grammar –

You shouldn’t try to use E-Prime in daily language. It’s just a strict grammar – just as programming or mathematics require strict grammars. The point is to use it enough, either in writing or just in mind, so that you begin to understand when you’re speaking clearly and coherently, and when not. Use it to internalize operational prose. If you do you will, in general, speak, and most importantly think more clearly, and communicate better, and even better, identify when people are “talking shite” even when they don’t know they are.

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