Sometimes I use E-Prime as sort of a verbose flag for English.<p>Instead of: &quot;Mount Everest is almost 8 km tall.&quot;<p>A verbose E-Prime version would sound something like: &quot;I recall having read an Wikipedia article that reported the height of Mount Everest as almost 8 km.&quot;<p>Notice all the extra verbs in there.<p>&quot;Recall&quot;? Could I have mis-recalled?<p>&quot;Read&quot;? Could I have misread?<p>&quot;Reported&quot;? Could Wikipedia have misreported it, intentionally or unintentionally?