E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
How do you communicate someone's name then?
You can't say "the name IS", or "He/she IS called".
The cognate to the word all the other Germanic languages use has become archaic and even lacks a present tense form:<p><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hight#English" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hight#English</a><p>Maybe: "One calls her/him"?