one could consider it pertinent to consider the ambitious notion of e-prime for completely abolishing 'to be' from language...
This is a very compelling proposition, belligerentyouth. Thank you for bringing it to us.
"E-Prime" really could help people to think more profoundly and more conscientously and realistically about reality.
But the dense fog of jargon in which Alfred Korzybski and his admirers have explained this concept, paradoxically, defeats the illumination of reality which the concept could, and probably should, engender.
What they are really talking about is describing the world in factual terms, based on what we actually know, rather than in judgmental terms, based on what we think we know, or based on the 'truths' any particular majority finds emotionally satisfying.
Such 'truths' are always, at best, an oversimplification, and, therefore, untruths.
