[tei-council] Third-person vs. First-person in the Guidelines

[Lou Burnard]

On 07/08/12 15:19, Brett Barney wrote:
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> I hadn't consciously articulated it this way, but Lou's right here, I think. And I think it's an effective construction. Of the examples Rebecca gives from chapter 1, the last is an exception:
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> * "We do not describe them in detail here"
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Yes, I missed that one -- It should of course be passivized eg. "They 
are not described in detail here".

The difference /test is probably to ask something like  "is the material 
being asserted -- typically a technical term or usage -- something that 
the reader is expected to internalise and use themselves thereafter or 
during the exposition?" If so, use "we"; otherwise consider 
passivization, err, passivizationing is to be considered appropriate.