[Ads-l] Singular "we"

[Chris Waigl]

I was wondering what to call the "we" I employ when writing scientific
papers ("we used nested cross-validation to assess the accuracy of the
regressor" - well, even if I have co-authors, chances are *I* was doing
these things; "we collected 100 field data records..." - well, THAT was my
colleagues X and Y). Editorial we doesn't quite hit the spot, and I was
leaning towards something like author's we. Which the Wikipedia entry
lists, along with a few others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We#Semantics

Chris

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 11:04 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've known of "editorial we" and "royal we" for most of my reading life.
> I was just re-reading Thomas Harris's "Hannibal" and came across
> "magisterial we".  Since this is a re-read, obviously I've seen
> "magisterial we" before, but it never stuck.
>
> Are there other types of "we" that refer to a singular speaker?
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