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I think it's far beyond a royal "we", and in fact I would even argue that a royal "we" is acceptable usage for a company to use - even it's only a single person
by imron 10y ago
I think it's far beyond a royal "we", and in fact I would even argue that a royal "we" is acceptable usage for a company to use - even it's only a single person company.
It's in a whole other league to say this is me and this is my team, and this is my history, when it's not. I'm not sure if you read Chinese, and maybe that's why it's harder to tell the difference between "we" and this. It's not just the picture, the blurb provided is misleading at best and false at worse.
Yes, people are biased, but this is a situation in which there was no need to be misleading in the first place. She could just have easily written some respectable copy without needing to resort to deception, and so it rankles me she chose to be misleading when there was no need to be.
- kirubakaran 10y agoI see. You're right, I don't know Chinese and I didn't realize she was claiming that the people in that photo were her team.
- imron 10y agoShe never explicitly says this 'this is a photo of me and my team', however a Chinese reader with no other context would make that as the natural assumption. It says stuff like 'under the supervision and guidance of our CEO and Founder Beau Rose Jessup, our team of experts will analyze the characteristics you're looking for in a name and blah blah blah'. Then there's a single shot of the same woman with text that begins "I am Beau Rose Jessup the founder and CEO of Simple Name" and then goes on to detail her 12 year history of visiting China. It's very heavily implied that these are the people behind the site.