Who came up with this joke, “Only monarchs, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we’”? The Quote Investigator, um, investigates.
Who came up with this joke, “Only monarchs, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we’”? The Quote Investigator, um, investigates.
I have found, in writing research papers for school, that using “I” is not recommended, but the editorial we is also not recommended. So one is reduced to saying things like “one,” or ‘the author of this paper.”
“The author of this paper” over “I”? That’s thick.