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    Related reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 3:55
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    Nobody seems to have picked up on this, but 'we/us' is first-person plural, not third person. Third-person has 'he/him', 'she/her', and 'they/them'. Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 23:13
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    @Robbie: You are wrong. My native language is English and I am also a professional writer. I am extremely comfortable with English but not really well-versed in formal grammatical terms. I also was careful to give an explicit example because I know there are other forms of you such as "thou", so I wanted to give a simple example in which substituting "I" would work in one and not the other. As for the other language, I was thinking of Portuguese, but I did not want to say it because I am not 100% sure there isn't some subtlety in Portuguese that I am missing. Commented Jul 19, 2022 at 20:41