'we/you/I who…'
I've come across the expression 'we who...' meaning 'those of us who...' from time to time.
Honestly, whenever I hear the expression, it's jarring to my non-native ears.
But this expression seems to be in use even by the most educated such as, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who writes this:
A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to “leave before you leave.” When a woman starts thinking about having children, Sandberg said, “she doesn’t raise her hand anymore … She starts leaning back.” Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg’s exhortation contains more than a note of reproach. We who have made it to the top, or are striving to get there, are essentially saying to the women in the generation behind us: “What’s the matter with you?”
(from "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All")
Is 'we who' as natural as 'those of us who'?
Also, how about 'I who' and 'you who'? (Both having a restrictive relative clause)
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I've come across the expression 'we who...' meaning 'those of us who...' from time to time.
Honestly, whenever I hear the expression, it's jarring to my non-native ears.
But this expression seems to be in use even by the most educated such as, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who writes this:
A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to “leave before you leave.” When a woman starts thinking about having children, Sandberg said, “she doesn’t raise her hand anymore … She starts leaning back.” Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg’s exhortation contains more than a note of reproach. We who have made it to the top, or are striving to get there, are essentially saying to the women in the generation behind us: “What’s the matter with you?”
(from "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All")
Is 'we who' as natural as 'those of us who'?
Also, how about 'I who' and 'you who'? (Both having a restrictive relative clause)
relative-clauses antecedents
asked 41 mins ago
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I've come across the expression 'we who...' meaning 'those of us who...' from time to time.
Honestly, whenever I hear the expression, it's jarring to my non-native ears.
But this expression seems to be in use even by the most educated such as, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who writes this:
A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to “leave before you leave.” When a woman starts thinking about having children, Sandberg said, “she doesn’t raise her hand anymore … She starts leaning back.” Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg’s exhortation contains more than a note of reproach. We who have made it to the top, or are striving to get there, are essentially saying to the women in the generation behind us: “What’s the matter with you?”
(from "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All")
Is 'we who' as natural as 'those of us who'?
Also, how about 'I who' and 'you who'? (Both having a restrictive relative clause)
relative-clauses antecedents
asked 41 mins ago
listenevalisteneva
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I've come across the expression 'we who...' meaning 'those of us who...' from time to time.
Honestly, whenever I hear the expression, it's jarring to my non-native ears.
But this expression seems to be in use even by the most educated such as, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who writes this:
A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to “leave before you leave.” When a woman starts thinking about having children, Sandberg said, “she doesn’t raise her hand anymore … She starts leaning back.” Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg’s exhortation contains more than a note of reproach. We who have made it to the top, or are striving to get there, are essentially saying to the women in the generation behind us: “What’s the matter with you?”
(from "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All")
Is 'we who' as natural as 'those of us who'?
Also, how about 'I who' and 'you who'? (Both having a restrictive relative clause)
relative-clauses antecedents
relative-clauses antecedents
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