[Ads-l] Singular "we"

[Barretts Mail]

FWIW there’s also the second person “we” as in a doctor who says, “How are we today?” (singular) or a server who says, “How are we this evening?” (usually plural).

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA 

> On May 17, 2023, at 13:11, Chris Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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