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GeneralRe: We are not amused! Pin
CodeWraith22-Oct-18 3:06
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Eddy Vluggen22-Oct-18 3:13
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CodeWraith22-Oct-18 3:23
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OriginalGriff22-Oct-18 4:40
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Al Escobar22-Oct-18 4:50
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Eddy Vluggen22-Oct-18 5:24
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kmoorevs22-Oct-18 3:16
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kalberts22-Oct-18 3:34
kalberts22-Oct-18 3:34 
It is OK with me if the statement is made by a person who is really representing a group of people. If "we" could be replaces by "Microsoft" or "The xxx party" or "The soccer team", without changing the meaning significantly: "We" is correct.

I am fare more annoyed when a machine, such as my PC running MS-Word, tells me "We didn't find what you were searching for", as if MS had lined up a huge search-and-rescue team running all over the landscape with torches and heat cameras to find another occurence of the word "annoyed". An editor is not a "we"!

By old Norwegian tradition, royals (the king and such) refer to themself as "we" in all formal statements, even when he refers only to his own person (and not the Norwegain people he represents). This has lead to a common joke in Norwegian: "Only royals and people with tapeworms are entitled to refer to themselves as 'we'".
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GeneralRe: Javascript Programmer - Is It Your Perfect Career? Pin
Eddy Vluggen22-Oct-18 1:31
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Eddy Vluggen22-Oct-18 1:57
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dandy7222-Oct-18 4:41
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GeneralI hate it when that happens. Pin
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