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conoalias
 Post subject: "We" & "Us" question
PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:43 pm 
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Ok, i'm going to be the annoying righteous European here.

A lot of people use these 2 words in their arguments and i was just wondering what exactly do you mean when you use them?

    We are safer
    the terrorists hate us
that sort of thing.

Do most of you refer to America(ns) or people in general.

and yes i know America is #1. :roll:
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I don't like using 'we,' it's too ambivalent. Not a big fan of terrorists either, I try to not use something like that as there are varying types of terrorists.

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Buggy wrote:
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POTD?

UFIA?

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corduroy11
 Post subject: Re: "We" & "Us" question
PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:02 pm 
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conoalias wrote:
Ok, i'm going to be the annoying righteous European here.

A lot of people use these 2 words in their arguments and i was just wondering what exactly do you mean when you use them?

    We are safer
    the terrorists hate us
that sort of thing.

Do most of you refer to America(ns) or people in general.

and yes i know America is #1. :roll:


I'm Canadian and I consider myself part of the "us" group. (us... not U.S.)
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US: Victorious home football team (We kicked the Eagles' asses yesterday)

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punkdavid wrote:
US: Victorious home football team (We kicked the Eagles' asses yesterday)

Them: Loser home football team (Those idiots couldn't hold on to the ball yesterday)

i hate it when people refer to the team for which they root as "we."

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knuckles of frisco wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
US: Victorious home football team (We kicked the Eagles' asses yesterday)

Them: Loser home football team (Those idiots couldn't hold on to the ball yesterday)

i hate it when people refer to the team for which they root as "we."

Cubs fan?

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"we" = me and my husband

"them" = everyone else

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punkdavid wrote:
knuckles of frisco wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
US: Victorious home football team (We kicked the Eagles' asses yesterday)

Them: Loser home football team (Those idiots couldn't hold on to the ball yesterday)

i hate it when people refer to the team for which they root as "we."

Cubs fan?

allegedly, I'm a homer

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