In wiki we often write with "we". Interestingly I cannot search well for "we" in wiki - too many hits. I've written some pages before, but we remain lost.
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We have become a grandmother. Quote by Margaret Thatcher - youtube ![]()
In Wiki has become a grandmother, I wonder about how our children will read what we write. I wonder what "we" and "I" have become. I am not a practiced writer, and this form of writing must be uncomfortable. If it weren't it would not be new. To be new is to be uncomfortable. We think. But I regret that it is ugly.
The __royal ''we__'', __majestic plural__ , or __royal plural__, is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms) to refer to a single person who is a monarch.
The more general word for the use of a ''we'', ''us'', or ''our'' to refer to oneself is nosism, which of course is nonsense as it is not general at all - wikipedia
Speakers employing the royal we refer to themselves using a grammatical number other than the singular (i.e., in plural or Dual (grammatical number) form). For example, in his manifesto confirming the abdication of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, Emperor Alexander I of Russia begins: "By the Grace of God, We, Alexander I, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias ...."
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