A Twitter post by Dana Schwartz @DanaSchwartzzz that reads Whenever I scold my cat, I use the royal we" so she doesn't feel so ashamed. “We don't eat that. We don't chew on electrical cords," I say. It's as if I, too, have a problem with eating wires or plastic I found on the floor and she and I are working on that problem together.

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 90 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's as if I, too, have a problem with eating wires or plastic I found on the floor and she and I are working on that problem together.

That's precisely not the royal we. The royal we would imply that she means only herself and not herself and her cat.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Came to the comments to say this.