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

[Rebecca Welzenbach]

Thanks, all, for your feedback--I like Lou's test for determining when
"we" is appropriate. I'll also add a note about generally avoiding
imperatives.

Talk to you soon!
Becky

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Lou Burnard
<lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 07/08/12 15:19, Brett Barney wrote:
>>
>
>> 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:
>>
>> * "We do not describe them in detail here"
>>
>
> 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.
>
>
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