Originally Posted By: Jerr Boschee
I could hear my journalism adviser's tongue clicking: "Jerr, Jerr -- if they 'reign' then they ARE 'supreme' -- you don't need BOTH words!"


Your journalism adviser didn't understand much about the workings of the English language, did he?

 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
the nurse's we

Some languages distinguish between an inclusive we and an exclusive we, depending on whether second person is part of the we or not.


The nurse's we is a whole nother kind of we; it excludes the first person.