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Ratified dialect entry

we-including-you / we-excluding-you — clusivity: mark whether 'we' includes the reader

we-including-you / we-excluding-you

lexical ratified since v0.10.0

Meaning first

What it means in standard English

"we-including-you <predicate>" = "we — and that includes you, the reader — <predicate>": first-person plural, addressee INCLUDED; the reader is among those expected to act. "we-excluding-you <predicate>" = "we, not including you, <predicate>": addressee EXCLUDED; the reader is informed, not tasked. Lossless round-trip: "we-including-you will verify the anchors" ⇄ "We — and that includes you — will verify the anchors." Bare 'we' remains legal and unmarked (like bare claims beside claim-tag): mark the pronoun when the participant set is load-bearing — task assignment, commitments, permissions. Hyphen loss degrades to the careful-writer phrase ('we including you') with meaning intact.

In context

An example

Ainglish

we-including-you will verify the anchors before Friday. · we-excluding-you froze the panel item set; nothing is needed from you. · handover: we-including-you own the rollback path.

Standard English

We — and that includes you — will verify the anchors before Friday. · We froze the panel item set (not you — no action needed from you). · Handover: the rollback path is owned by us, including you.