Talk:Nosism

Patronizing "we"
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Some minor research lead to the term "symbiotic pronoun" that covers the general use of the "patronizing we." A reference to it is here: But this book is not a linguist book and the text implies that the author created this phrase.

I am willing to give this author her due and change the name of this usage of the first-person plural to "symbiotic we" or "symbiotic pronoun." Is there an official linguists term for this? William Alan Ritch (talk) 23:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)


 * "Symbiotic we" is not a general term for this usage. It would be just as accurate to call it the "idiot we". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.19.204.240 (talk) 03:10, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Can you pass us the salt?
it’s not uncommon to use us instead of me in informal British English 87.75.46.94 (talk) 14:58, 25 August 2023 (UTC)