3 ms·
Sorry, I have to ask about the pronouns. Does the use of "we" imply that this laptop is shared by multiple people?
by foobarbecue 5y ago
Sorry, I have to ask about the pronouns. Does the use of "we" imply that this laptop is shared by multiple people?
- foobarbecue 5y agoI mean, I suppose it's a reasonable pronoun for someone to use if they wish to be referred to as "they" ...
- kmm 5y ago"They" is almost exclusively singular in those circumstances, regardless of its etymology. Similar to how "you" derives from the old English second person plural pronoun, but is in virtually all variants of modern English acceptable for the second person singular.
- Youden 5y agoI also found it confusing. I was wondering if it was this person's preferred pronoun but their Twitter [0] lists "she" as of "January 2022" and all the testimonials use "she" too [1]. [0]: https://twitter.com/EverfreeArtemis https://twitter.com/EverfreeArtemis [1}: https://artemis.sh/ https://artemis.sh/
- verytrivial 5y agoNo, it's just a pronoun flex. Spend as many cycles on that as you think it deserves.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- bityard 5y agoIt's possible the author has multiple personalities, it's a good thing that they are running a multi-user operating system.
- emptybottle 5y agoThe article is written to be read back in Gollum's voice
- bduerst 5y agoNah, the author is royalty and is referring to the use of the laptop by themselves and by their sovereign station.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- fuzzer37 5y agoBy definition it does. I'm not sure what weird literary device the author is going for here.