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A legal way of saying “is”. It scores over [[to be]] in that it is highly regular: the different forms of a given tense require no [[conjugation]]: | {{a|drafting|}}A legal way of saying “is”. It scores over [[to be]] in that it is highly ''regular'': the different forms of a given tense require no [[conjugation]]: | ||
I ''shall constitute'' | I ''am''<br> | I ''shall constitute'' | I ''am''<br> | ||
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They ''shall constitute'' | They ''are''<br> | They ''shall constitute'' | They ''are''<br> | ||
On the other hand it is | On the other hand it is arguably most violent offender against the norms of plain English. There could not be a simpler, plainer word than ''be''. It is the first word non-English speakers learn on the long journey to being culturally hegemonised. There is no-one who knows anything about English who doesn’t know, innately what it means. | ||
“Constitute” adds nothing to “be”. It is no more specific, no more precise, there is no nuance of meaning it captures that “be” does not. | |||