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Naming your company "We" sure leads to some grammatically awkward and confusing sentences: We now expects an IPO valuation far lower than the $47 billion price
by jonas21 7y ago
Naming your company "We" sure leads to some grammatically awkward and confusing sentences:
We now expects an IPO valuation far lower than the $47 billion price it got in a January funding round.
We said the new structure was created in part to make it easier to expand into new businesses beyond co-working, according to IPO filings.
He relishes trips in private jets. Last year, We bought one for more than $60 million...
- 52-6F-62 7y agoThis is why in a lot of writing names of organizations and publications often get contrasting style in the text. Name in italicized text is romanized, or the opposite. eg: > We now expects... or > We now expects... Because... yes. It can produce some ridiculous results
- perl4ever 7y agoFirst, click on your My Computer...
- 52-6F-62 7y agoYou got me there. I'd put something like that in quotes! I actually ran into that last week with a publication. Didn't have rights to a certain font's italics. Too much deliberation with design and edit. Solution ended up being single quotes. ex: > click on ‘My Computer’
- mitchtbaum 7y agoWe'll be good.
- oh_sigh 7y agoAre Adam's pronouns we/we?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- sdwa 7y agoWell, you just have to incessantly refer to it by its full name: The We Company.
- dejj 7y agoOr call it the WC. ‘Tis more funny in Europe.