The use of 'You' in Sentences

[wonderm]

Funz:

Just a little snippet of how the 'I', 'you' and 'we' was used with DD.


DD came home with a way below average result for one of her math tests.

Me: This wasn't what we are expecting is it?
DD (very miserably): No
Me: So what do you think went wrong?
DD (in a small voice): I am not sure.....
Me : Were a lot of marks lost due to carelessness?
DD (in an even smaller voice): some
Me : Were there questions that you were unable to solve?
DD (still hunched over) : yah, 2 of them.
(and she showed me the questions)
Me : Were you taught such sums in class?
DD (still not looking at me): Yes, but I did not really understand
Me : So what should we have done if we do not fully understand what was taught?
DD (peeking at me) : Ask teacher or ask you or daddy
Me : We have also spoken many times about your carelessness....
DD(sitting up more) : yes mummy, I was scribbling too much and could not read my own handwriting in this test so my answers were wrong though method was correct.
Me : so what should we do now?
DD(pulling her chair up to the table and grabbing a pencil): Can we go through those few sums? And after that, can we find more similar sums for me to try on my own?
Me : Ok. And what of your carelessness?
DD : It is work in progress mummy.
DD chanting : we shall not scribble, we shall not scribble, we will write neatly, we will write neatly......

A week later I got a watsapp from DD

DD : WE DID IT MUMMY!!!!
me : Huh? What did we do?
DD : I got 90/100 for this mock exam!
me : Woo hooo!!! So all your hard work paid off!!!
DD : Yup! (series of happy bouncing emoticons)
DD : muacks! Love you
Me : Love you more. (this is our usual sign off)

Thanks for sharing an example. I recall similar conversations with my boys. I didn't even realize the use of \"we\" and \"you\" in such conversations until I saw your illustration.

[SAHM_TAN]

Hi Funz,


Thanks for the latest post. I needed this post

[buds]

insider:

buds:

This is a skill not everyone can master. :evil:

buddy,

we are not being trained for nothing...:evil:

:evil:

U still the shifu. :love:
Learnt a lot from you. Thank you. :please:

Quality of life is most important to live happily.

[buds]

buds:

When it comes to language and the ways of communication, there is never just one sure-fire way... a perfect way... regardless if one speaks to a child or a teen or an adult.

ChiefKiasu:

I agree. It's really how we say it, and not what we say.

Here's Miss Hattie, the orphanage director who always use \"we\".
Watch from 33 secs onwards.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-NaOmXXUI][/youtube]

A very apt example.