Fair enough / TIL on the origin. That said, your wikipedia link says: "Kellogg and Bourland describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a "deity mode of spee

Fair enough / TIL on the origin. That said, your wikipedia link says: "Kellogg and Bourland describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a "deity mode of speech", allowing "even the most ignorant to transform their opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things"." While (objectively speaking) there are objectively true things, would you not disagree that "is true" is overused and leads to sloppy thinking?