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rdancer on Dec 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'

"My friends call me Steven. You will address me as Mr Seagal."

One of the advantages of this restriction on speech is that it forces you to think about relationships between things. In this case, what does it mean to have a name?

DanitaBaires on Dec 8, 2015 [–]

In other languages the construction for "My name is Steve" is something like "They call me Steve" (Russian) or "I call myself Steve" (Spanish).

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