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Refer to your second paragraph to answer this question.

When I make an argument about older Englishmen, using "we" places me within their time. Yes, the concept applies.

My point exactly. Though to match you there, I can't argue with actual examples because I don't read Middle English books. Regardless, this is close enough to discussed out in my eyes if it makes Blitz uncomfortable.
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Neither do I; I just searched for citations, and then I looked for Middle English texts that were searchable and looked for the relevant personal pronouns, before comparing them to the translated version. However, I didn't get very far before I gave up, because the oldest Middle English text I could find (Brut) had 16,096 lines and I wasn't going to bother finding every single usage of every single relevant personal pronoun just to prove my point, heheh. But yeah, I think it's just about time to end this discussion. Maybe one day one of us will find an example.

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Which is why we need one board of English speakers.

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Please?
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But then all the big factions will cry out, saying that it should have representatives from their ranks, and then we'd be back to the same problem, because it involves choosing one dialect or faction as superior to all the others, a choice which would inevitably be considered biased. The only way I can think of to choose it without bias at all would be to train one or several children from birth in the styles of all factions without bias toward any, let them choose their favourite choice from each controversy, and then use the majority rule. But that's an insane idea and I don't even know how I thought of that. =D