Re: 1st person vocative (was: Language universal?)
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 9, 2001, 19:22 |
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 4:38 pm -0800 8/2/01, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> .....
> Does anyone in any language actually address the ego in intrapersonal [sic]
> communication?
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."
(And yes, it's fairly easy to tell I'm weird. =^p)
YHL