Academic & Scientific Register

Academic French avoids 'je' in favor of passive/on/nous de modestie

French academic convention discourages the first-person je in favor of impersonal constructions — on constate ('one observes'), il a été démontré ('it has been demonstrated'), or the plural nous de modestie (a single author using 'we' to sound less self-centered). Malayalam scholarly writing shows a comparable instinct: formal essays and papers reach for impersonal, passive phrasing like കാണപ്പെടുന്നു ('is observed/found') or തെളിയിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു ('has been demonstrated') rather than a direct എനിക്കു തോന്നുന്നു ('I feel/think'), which would read as too personal and closer to everyday spoken register for a formal paper.