The loss of 'is'
Now people who know me from TMC will likely laugh at this but hey...I'm known for slaughtering grammar (and spelling).
I've lost my 'is', it's missing! WTF mate!
What do I mean? I was rereading and rewritting a paper for uni (psychology related) when I noticed an 'is'.
"Aphasia is a condition...", Oh my god; I can't come out and use is.
Is is definitive, is is stone clad unquestionable truth. The use outside of psychology sounds a level of ignorance and arrogance, it cuts out the idea of opinion, and re-enforces facts and holy held ideas of correctness because something 'is'. Black is black unless you register black differently; then black is a tone of grey... but it isn't a 'is' anymore.
I mentioned my discovery to a tutor, not the crazy personal views on is and such but the actual use of is in my paper. And how I picked it up, and corrected it. Only to be loled at and told a story about E-prime, a version of english devoid of is. created by a guy named Wilson. Common in scientific areas, even if it isn't called E-prime, and used for its research correctness.
So I guess the real question is can I get rid of is im my life completely...
Crap... I just used it twice once as an example of the word and once in the structure of the sentence.
I've lost my 'is', it's missing! WTF mate!
What do I mean? I was rereading and rewritting a paper for uni (psychology related) when I noticed an 'is'.
"Aphasia is a condition...", Oh my god; I can't come out and use is.
Is is definitive, is is stone clad unquestionable truth. The use outside of psychology sounds a level of ignorance and arrogance, it cuts out the idea of opinion, and re-enforces facts and holy held ideas of correctness because something 'is'. Black is black unless you register black differently; then black is a tone of grey... but it isn't a 'is' anymore.
I mentioned my discovery to a tutor, not the crazy personal views on is and such but the actual use of is in my paper. And how I picked it up, and corrected it. Only to be loled at and told a story about E-prime, a version of english devoid of is. created by a guy named Wilson. Common in scientific areas, even if it isn't called E-prime, and used for its research correctness.
So I guess the real question is can I get rid of is im my life completely...
Crap... I just used it twice once as an example of the word and once in the structure of the sentence.