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I've never met anyone that speaks about themselves exclusively in third person in any walk of life. It seems like something that could get semantically challeng
by usgroup 5y ago
I've never met anyone that speaks about themselves exclusively in third person in any walk of life. It seems like something that could get semantically challenging fairly quickly. I also wonder if eccentricities are independently distributed. Is a person hosting one eccentricity more likely to acquire another? I wouldn't have thought so personally. To wit, finding a guy that seems to have at least 4 -- at least by my count -- strikes me as very likely fictional.
- fegu 5y agoI do have a friend who often replaces "I" with "the <lastname>". Peculiar thing. Sometimes slightly cool, most often just annoying.
- justinclift 5y agoDitto here. A friend's girlfriend uses her first name instead of "I" in every instance. She's even got the friend to start doing it for her too. eg firstname instead of "you" No major concerns about it though, it doesn't negatively affect things.
- moron4hire 5y agoIs her name Ai?
- xg15 5y agoI'm pretty sure if you use "the" to refer to yourself, you're also obligated by law to wear shades at all times, do finger guns at least once a day and use the term "rad" at least once every hour.
- nicklaf 5y agoIs your friend a TNG [0] fan? :-P [0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Watches_The_Watchers_(episode) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Watches_The_Watcher...
- bipson 5y agoI strangely acquired this habit at home shortly after my first son was born for some conversations... "I need to do this now" became "Daddy needs to do this now"... It is weird, and entirely unnecessary, kids acquire understanding of "I" and "you" quite fast. It just came and never went. I think I was trying to be less ambiguous when conversations did not involve only me and the kids, but also Mum and others, or when I somehow want to emphasize the context and my role (?) I have no idea and it is fading, only a lot of company present might trigger it - or recounting stories to others. But maybe I just never realized how weird it is - I would raise both eyebrows if a colleague at work would talk like that in a "normal" context.
- Aeolun 5y agoBased on comments here, daddy doing it (unconciously) seems fairly normal.
- wyldfire 5y agoThe Dude abides. :)
- bigbizisverywyz 5y agoThe Chad is sinking.
- Lio 5y agoGeorge is getting UPSET!
- mongol 5y agoZlatan ibrahimovic does it sometimes. Although I have not met him. I can't translate it to English however, I don't know what that type of third person grammar is called. I think the closest translation would be something like "one feels very determined to win this match"
- rich_sasha 5y agoFriend of a friend knew someone. The person in question went on Apprentice in the UK, and spoke like this (Felipe for those unfortunate souls like me who watch it). My friend confirmed that Felipe speaks like this. The funny thing is, apparently until the Apprentice, and this being pointed out, he didn’t even realise (???), and then found it impossible to keep up.
- gherkinnn 5y agoNope. I know somebody who mostly refers to herself in the 3rd person and has a ton of other quirks. If anything, people with underlying oddities might develop several quirks on top of them. Or they realise that one can get away with strange behaviour and don’t even try to suppress ever new and interesting patterns.
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- adwn 5y ago> I've never met anyone that speaks about themselves exclusively in third person in any walk of life. My 2.5 year old daughter does this. I suspect she'll grow out of it at some point before she gets a job, though.
- goodcanadian 5y agoIndeed, pronouns are a pretty challenging skill for toddlers. Similarly, for their sake, you will often refer to yourself in third person as well, saying Daddy or Mommy rather than I or me.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI have online. I think they are still around one of the groups I’m in. It’s rather confusing. As far as quirks go… it depends why someone has a quirk. If someone isn’t neurotyoical, they can seem like they have a lot of weird behaviors. Once you know the underlying cause, it makes sense and you stop thinking about it. (Or at least I do.)
- gostsamo 5y agoHave fun reading Babel-17. An entire language there is built on the idea of removing the self. Edit: Corrected book title.
- monocultured 5y agoDo you mean Babel-17?
- gostsamo 5y agoYes, thanks for the correction.
- smukherjee19 5y agoFun fact: in Japan, from what little I've seen, quite a few young kids (think till lower elementary school) tend to speak in third person, and is generally seen as "cute". However, it sounds just as much unnatural (or even annoying unless the person is known to have some sort of issue) to speak in the third person for other age groups, especially working adults.
- mjklin 5y agoThat’s funny, the same is the case with small children in China. Instead of “我饿了” (I’m hungry) they could say “人家饿了” which is something like “people are hungry”. This is also seen as cute and naturally goes away as they get older.
- watwut 5y agoKids talk in third person about themselves in slavic languages too. It is normal as they are learning to talk. They switch to first person by themselves later.
- ninkendo 5y agoInteresting. Does speaking in the third person sound “childish” to people in Japan? (That would explain Pokémon quite a bit at least.)
- ramchip 5y agoIt does sound childish, but I know women in their 30s who still speak like that. For a man it would be very strange / unusual though.
- sersi 5y agoYes, but I'd say that women in their 30s who speak like that purposefully try to be childish.
- smukherjee19 5y agoIt depends on how you define childish, and also the age of the person in question, but in general: Yes. Also, in case of adult women, if they speak in third person, to me it sounds あざとい(azatoi). I am sorry, I don't know how to phrase it in English without ruining the nuance. It's a mix of calculating, cunning, and a bit flirtatious? Either way, you also need to consider the tone of their voice, body language, and the contents itself. (Maybe if they want you to carry the shopping bag because it's a bit heavy for them, they might use this way of speaking.) That being said, I do not have any real-life examples to back this up so take it with a grain of salt.
- pjc50 5y ago> Is a person hosting one eccentricity more likely to acquire another? Absolutely. In life, most people are "normal", almost by the definition of normal, but there's a big penumbra of people who don't habitually and reflexively conform to normal. If you're a little bit odd, you spend effort suppressing it and actively conforming. In autistic circles, this is called "masking" for behaviors deemed autistic; in LGBT circles, this is called "passing", and so on. But once someone has fallen sufficiently far from the middle of the normal distribution that they can't pass, or can't be bothered to pass (it can be a lot of work), they stop trying to pass and you can spot all their non-normal behaviors. (What is "normal" is of course culturally determined and varies by your local culture, social class, etc, and covers all sorts of things. Americans and Brits are told to hold forks differently, for example)
- lb1lf 5y ago> (What is "normal" is of course culturally determined and varies by your local culture, social class, etc, and covers all sorts of things. (...)) -I've heard the quip -'Being considered normal just means you are as weird as the national average.'
- not2b 5y agoMost people want to be considered normal, but few people want to be considered average. But the two words really denote the same thing, though the connotations are very different.
- usgroup 5y agoI think that not normal mostly doesn’t imply eccentric.
- bencollier49 5y agoantonyms for eccentric common. conventional. familiar. normal.
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- eps 5y ago- What do you think of the homeless people? - Rock doesn't mind them for as long as they keep off his lawn. Dwayne Johnson, the early years.
- z3t4 5y agoI often use my name instead of I in e-mails just in case the context who wrote it will be lost. I also often CC everyone I mention in the @-mail for transparency.
- i_like_waiting 5y agoMy friend does something similar for majority of online communication, every time he refers to something potentially illegal/ immoral/ shares some weird experience he uses "my friend" instead of "I"
- denton-scratch 5y agoIRC does this for you, if you put "/me" into an utterance. [Edit] Several other chat services copy that behaviour.
- benttoothpaste 5y agoIt’s easy with kids. “Now daddy needs to make an important phone call so do not disturb him and be quiet.”
- Aeolun 5y agoHmm, I can definitely do it when talking to my child, where I mostly refer to myself as papa. To be honest, I’m not sure why I do this. It’s papa that is tired, not me.
- littlestymaar 5y ago> To be honest, I’m not sure why I do this. We're in the same boat. And for a few month I've found it pretty annoying and I've tried to stop, but I haven't manage to do so. What's wrong with our brains?!
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI refer to myself as 'Daddy' when talking to my cats. I don't there's any hope for me.
- mellavora 5y agoThe error with your brain is that it thinks that a behavior which has been genetically engineered over millenia to be the most effective way to interact with your children should be consistent with/follow the same rules as you use in adult conversation. Other than that, you're fine.
- NateEag 5y agoI think parents do this as a (subconscious?) way to help frame things from the child's perspective, knowing that the kid is terrible at taking on anyone else's perspective.
- enqk 5y agoSince I've tried consciously not to do that, now the kid thinks "myself" is my name. I.e. says "myself" did this when the kid means "Dad did this"
- C19is20 5y agoShould have met Jim. Jim spoke about himself in the third person exclusively. I hated working with Jim.
- dustintrex 5y agoFWIW, some languages like Vietnamese don't really use pronouns in a Western sense, and it's common to refer even to yourself by name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_avoidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_avoidance
- Tade0 5y agoI did - assuming that brief moment when he was a substitute lecturer on a course I attended in college extrapolated into the rest of his life.
- denton-scratch 5y agoThe assassin in GoT spoke of himself as "a man", and of Arya as "a girl". That's the only thing I can think of that's similar. [Edit] The autistic kid in Mercury Rising referred to himself by firstname (can't remember his name).