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The last two lines are very telling. "The idea of..." line suggests that whatever is being said is a known fact, that the reader should take it on authority, w
by aaron-lebo 12y ago
The last two lines are very telling.
"The idea of..." line suggests that whatever is being said is a known fact, that the reader should take it on authority, where as adding "I think" immediately makes it sound like the writer is less sure of themself and only has an opinion that they don't want to push on anyone.
- bnegreve 12y agoOk so to summarize: when they are talking to higher-ups, people don't want to make strong claims so they use wordings that make it explicit that this is "only" their personal opinion rather than an absolute truth. And they typically do so by using the word 'I'. Which is therefore a good indicator to detect who's the higher-up. I would agree with this, but this all very implicit in the post.