Ludwig Wittgenstein
In a fraught email exchange with my adult son, I noticed something odd about our writing. I observed a disparate use of the verb “to be”. My writing contained many more of the various forms “be”, “am”, “is”, “are”, “being”, “was”, “were”, and “been”, and my son’s writing contained many fewer, though not none. I felt as though I had read something about this usage before, but could not immediately remember where.