Cyan comments on E-Prime - Less Wrong

9 Post author: CannibalSmith 08 April 2009 01:01PM

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Comment author: Cyan 08 April 2009 03:11:11PM *  4 points [-]

If we allow it, it certainly violates the spirit of E-Prime. As I understand it, E-prime forces one to attach such statements to an actor. Why might something be useful? Who or what makes it useful? I think you would express the statement in correct E-Prime as "I thought you might make good use of this".