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4th person pronoun? (startrek.website)
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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 101 points 11 months ago

I can't tell if you're making a joke or not, but when I learned it "we" was first person plural. Likewise "y'all" was second person plural, etc.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Y’all’s takes are both valid.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The difference is that we as a first person plural is generally used for a more discrete group of people, but still from the perspective of a single narrator. Fourth person we is generally used for a collective of people with a shared perspective; there is no single narrator that is separate from the collective group, the entire group is there narrator. Fourth person is a concept that has only recently begun to be recognized as a distinct point of view.

[-] Brocken40@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

If you believe in string perspective there are infinite narrators narrating each other's narrations and we have only just started to make words for the infinities.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Way too sober for this conversation lol

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