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Subject:Re: E. Prime or what? From:"Tom Bayston Jr." <ind00007 -at- PEGASUS -dot- CC -dot- UCF -dot- EDU> Date:Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:00:36 -0400
On Sun, 16 Apr 1995, Tom Bayston Jr. wrote:
> My tech writing professor said there was a lot of discussion on TECHWR-L
> about "E. Prime" or "E-Prime"... meaning the basic, "standard" English
> language.
Correction: e prime meaning the use of some form of the verb "to be"
