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

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Raymond Brown 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.
    I use the first person plural, because the ego is both the first person
and the second person.

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