Could I interest you in an E-Prime experimental forum?

[LoZoccolo]

Last week I was reading a book where they mentioned E-Prime, a subset of English that is designed to have features conducive to less conflict:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

My suggestion to the general DU public to adopt this form of writing was predictably met with hostility, but I feel a live demonstration in the form of an ongoing forum where E-Prime is the rule might compel people more than simply trying to convince people to use it in a forum where anyone can revert to English, and may yield more of the type of thought-provoking discussion that makes DU a benefit to the Democratic activist community.

On edit: This is actually about 85% not a joke. Although I think it is funny how ardently some people would want to cling to their ability to use rhetorical strategies that depend on forms of the verb "to be", E-Prime actually addresses some problems that I anticipated whenever I tried to think of how one would implement a forum on political strategy; I would want everyone to have to explain what a certain strategy does rather than what they think about it. I struggled with this question until I found that E-Prime tries to address it.

[Skinner]

1. Interesting idea.

We've mentioned elsewhere that on DU3 we're going to change the way we run this place. But I think we're going be moving in a different direction to what you are suggesting.