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I figured maybe the author used they/them as their pronouns. But the main page has some testimonials referring to “she”. So idk what’s up with the royal “we”.
by codetrotter 5y ago
I figured maybe the author used they/them as their pronouns. But the main page has some testimonials referring to “she”. So idk what’s up with the royal “we”.
Sometimes in science, people use the collective “we” in their writing. But like you say, the OP is using royal “we”, so I don’t think scientific writing is the reason either.
- mhh__ 5y agoAssuming they're non native it could be a butchered idiom from scientific writing.
- rob74 5y agoI'm not a native speaker, but AFAIK if you use "they" to avoid specifying a gender, it's "singular they" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they), so using the first person plural still doesn't really make sense...
- djrogers 5y agoFirst person pronouns aren't gendered, so even if this were a they/them using person, the darren.rogers@cybereason.com' doesn't make sense. What it did do was distract form the blog post, to the point that I stopped reading it. I just kept picturing someone creepily talking to their hairless cat while saying 'we'
- jrockway 5y agoTheir next blog post talks about being banned from Twitter because they put in a birthdate that made them under 13, so I'm guessing at some point they decided that they were reborn as some sort of collective (Twitter profile says "hardware witches | server maids"). Thus, "we" instead of "I". It's Hacker News. This kind of stuff is pretty normal here.
- donkarma 5y agono it is not