For most of the writing I do these days, E-Prime just doesn't work well--even the variation that allows "be" statements about identity and geography ("This is Overland Park"). There are still times I find it useful--and sadly, I'm not in practice to pull it off perfectly at those times.

It could also prove interesting to consciously meta-model communications for a couple of weeks. Not ask all the questions of other people, certainly--no need to incite the lynch mob--but to mentally review all of the distortions and deletions and generalizations and nominalizations and such when you hear, write, or speak them.

Heh. I may just practice some E-Prime, now, myself.