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03/06/2014 08:22:26
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Forum:
Health
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01600366
Message ID:
01601189
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>>>My objection has been, and continues to be with the use of "We need to ...".
>>>
>>>Words have meanings:
>>>
>>>1. "We": you're speaking on behalf of the reader, when you have no such authority
>>
>>Some languages have the distinction between "we, including you" and "we, not including you". I don't speak any of those.
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>>In any other language you probably don't exactly know which kind of "we" was meant. In sentences like this, I guess it is "all of us except myself".
>>
>
>True. We need to watch out can simply mean One has to watch out
>
>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/one
>20. an indefinite person regarded as typical of every person: one can't say any more than that.

We need to really watch how we phrase simple things. We can't be too careful.
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