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Re:Keep Your Identity Small (2009) by dmurray on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:11AM (#27422130)
You may be interested in E-Prime, "a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be".

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

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Re:Keep Your Identity Small (2009) by SyzygistSix on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:27AM (#27423698)
I have found E-prime really helpful to me as a tool to ingrain the habit of thinking of things and people in terms of what they do, rather than what they are or how we label them.
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