The Royal We ??

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Posted By: Brian H (misunderestimated)

Its probably just me but.....

I've always wondered exactly why individual sellers on Ebay -- and people in general while "we're" at it -- often like to adopt the first person plural ("We" and "Our")..

Is it like the professionals (lawyers and accountants for example) who insist on putting "& Associates" after their names especially when they have no professional "associates" in any meaningful sense of the word..... Or is it the Royal We used by Kings, Queens and the like ??

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

How about the answering machine message "All of our lines are currently busy ...." for single entrepreneur companies.

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Posted By: barrysloate

How about the baseball business where the owner dubs himself the president of the company and he is working as a one man operation. But using the pronoun "we" does suggest a business with many people droning away.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

When I opened for business and registered my corporate name they wanted me to use the word "office" instead of "offices" because I had only one address, even though I had two offices at the address. I looked up and down the rules for names and could not find any basis for the change, so I said the magic words to the idiot clerk: "let me speak to your supervisor". Presto, chango, my name was approved.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

A guy I knew named Andres owned his own person business. He was the owner and only employee, though he did have a company name. He invented and sold a computer telephone gadget. With the directions booklet to the gadget was a telephone help number to call if the buyer had questions. The number was his. A customer called for help and Andres gave the phone help needed. About a week later, the company got a letter from the customer to compliment the quality of the company's phone staff.

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Posted By: Jeffrey Lebowski

I dropped off the money exactly as per - look... man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light, and - y'know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, y'know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, y'know, given the nature of all this new ****, y'know, i-i-i-i-this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, y'know?

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Posted By: Charles Prawdzik

Its simple economics. We's make more money, command more respect, provide better service, etc. than I's. Perception is everything.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

My favorite in 'I' businesses was Sherlock Holmes. His business card said simply, "Sherlock Holmes." He was so sure of his greatness that his business card didn't have a job description or even an address.