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

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:17:44 -0500, Dennis Paul Himes
<dennis@...> wrote:

>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.
We see that others also address themselves as "we"!

Jeffs