btw, surely we all do still have some abstract awareness that journalistic "royal we" isn't in itself proof that whatever follows is some hideous kultur-kommissar bullshit but, yaknow, statistically, it is *just about close enough* ...
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @St_Rev
it's gotten to the point where if a headline so much as *starts with a first-person plural pronoun* my eyes are already glazing over
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @St_Rev
I think it has to do with knowing your audience. The Atlantic, for instance, probably has a good idea of its demographics, so the “we” is a legitimate cultural delineator.
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @St_Rev
sure, it's just that one finds oneself just outside the delineated circle only so often before one eventually stops assuming this must have been some sort of mistake or oversight on the authors' part
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @St_Rev
Is it a mistake? Do you read the Atlantic? I’m reasonably certain Rev doesn’t, except when an item to critique swims cross stream.
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @schakalsynthetc
If the headline accurately captures their 'we', their demographic has become much more poorly educated, as compared to say ten years ago.
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Replying to @St_Rev @schakalsynthetc
I believe that’s quite likely, and fits with my own casual observations. I didn’t know milk used to have brains in it, though.
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That seems kinda apocryphal. I mean, there would have been a really limited supply of calf brain, it can't have been cheaper/easier to acquire than cream? It was def a popular food item back then, so hardly waste material.
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Yeah, the excerpt sounds like a laundry list of some lurid stuff that maybe happened once somewhere, with some more boring stuff that was actually common. I did know about the 20th century fight over 'filled milk', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filled_milk …
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So...Dickens made it up?
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