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Atticus

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7. Trump was simply using something called the "majestic plural" (pluralis majestatis).

Sun Dec 8, 2019, 05:51 PM

Dec 2019

This is the use of a plural pronoun to refer to a single person who is a MONARCH. he more general term for the use of a we, us, or our to refer to oneself is "nosism".

As a comment I cannot resist adding, as far as I am concerned, the fact that Ms Ellis works at Liberty University tells me all I need to know about her. If, as I'm sure Ms Ellis believes, Jesus Christ is about to return, she should be very concerned. I think He would smack the living shit out of hypocritical Philistines like her.

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He didn't say we want you to do us a favor, though. Mc Mike Dec 2019 #13

our corruption???? did she have a Freudian Slip? demtenjeep Dec 2019 #14