Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

[Digit]

When you think deliberately enough to think in words, do you address yourself (“You need to return that library book tomorrow.”) or soliloquize (“I need to return that library book tomorrow.”)?

[yayfulness]

Depends on my mood. I think in the first person generally, but in the second person when I’m annoyed at myself.

[Emiliana]

I answered soliloquy, but occasionally it's address if I'm being stern: "Emiliana, you really can't hit the snooze button anymore this morning." Or if I'm being stern about something work-related, it's last name: "Get it together and grade those papers, Keats!"

[Portia]

Third person omniscient?

[Emiliana]

Third person omniscient?

Best possible answer to this question.

[vorpal blade]

Maybe more like the royal first person plural.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Fun fact: I occasionally refer to myself as "we." Drives people nuts.

[vorpal blade]

Do you think Queen Victoria actually said “We are not amused,” and if so was she giving her own opinion, or the general consensus?

[Cindy]

According to Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Victoria said she'd never said that (to the granddaughter's disappointment).

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-09- ... ot-amused/

[vorpal blade]

The quote so neatly describes the way we feel about Victoria that it seems she ought to have said it, even if she didn’t. Thanks, Cindy.