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Just to be completely clear on this word, would that be used to say something within a group rather than to outsiders of that group? example: "here at this gro
by sthreet 12y ago
Just to be completely clear on this word, would that be used to say something within a group rather than to outsiders of that group?
example:
"here at this group, we do things"
vs
"here at this group, we don't like any of you"
- ashark 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_personal_pronouns#On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_personal_pronouns#On TL;DR: 1) a very close analog to (pronoun, non-numerical) "one" in English, 2) an informal stand-in for nous, that is, "we", as in on y va[1]. [1] http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=81144 http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=81144
- sthreet 12y agoThanks for the clarification, I was fairly wrong before. I'm not completely sure now, but at least i'm not wrong.
- pluma 12y agoThis reminds me of the poor[0] management technique of avoiding I vs you ("there's no I in team") to project a feeling of ownership: e.g. "We don't do things this way." vs "You're not meant to do things this way." or "We think it's best to let you go." vs "I think it's best to let you go." [0]: Not saying that this is never appropriate, but in many cases this is just used as a tool to shift personal responsibility onto the entire team/company or present subjective opinions as something everyone agreed on. Team-building isn't something you can just define into existence.