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Re: 1st person vocative (was: Language universal?)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, February 9, 2001, 20:31
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:22:50PM -0500, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> Er...I sometimes address myself, but I use the *third* person--this being > not particularly uncommon in Korean, and I guess the habit carried over > into my English-speaking. (Too bad reminding myself of things is > generally not, hmm, very effective.) And then sometimes I slip from that > into the 2nd or 1st. But probably saying things like "*Good* Yoon Ha. > *Don't* forget your socks."
Hehe. I frequently address myself in the second person, eg. when I did something stupid, i'd exclaim to myself, "you stupid! whatcha do that for?!" Or, when I'm thinking, "what do you think is the best way to go about this?" I also tend to use the first person *plural* -- "let's do this now". Or, "let's see... how do we do this again?" And when I'm talking about myself, sometimes I use the first person singular to refer to the speaker, and the second person singular for the listener.
> (And yes, it's fairly easy to tell I'm weird. =^p)
Well, relative to some (most?) of us here, you're quite normal ;-) T -- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.