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Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status. [...] When undergraduates wrote me, their emails were littered with I, me, and my. My response, although quite friendly, was remarkably detached — hardly an I-word graced the page. And then I analyzed my emails to the dean of my college. My emails looked like an I-word salad; his emails back to me were practically I-word free.

James Pennebaker – The Secret Language Code