How unfortunate that you couldn't avoid the troublesome word yourself when identifying its failings. Besides, the underlying problem has more to do with the ve

How unfortunate that you couldn't avoid the troublesome word yourself when identifying its failings. Besides, the underlying problem has more to do with the verb "to be" (from which "is" conjugates) and the assumption of universal identity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime