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Subject:Re: E-Prime From:Jim Venis <ujv01 -at- MAILHOST -dot- UNIDATA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Feb 1994 18:41:45 CST
I had to look this up:
D. David Bourland, Jr. DID coin the name "E-Prime" in a paper published
in the General Semantics Bulletin, nos. 32 and 33 (1965/1966) called "A
Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime."
His thinking came out of work primarily by Korzybski (Science and
Sanity - 1933) and others such as deMorgan and Santayana.
I found the Bourland paper in To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology,
published by the International Society for General Semantics, (1991).
--Jim Venis ujv01 -at- unidata -dot- com Denver, Colo.
