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Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:34 pm
by 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.”)?

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:39 pm
by yayfulness
Depends on my mood. I think in the first person generally, but in the second person when I’m annoyed at myself.

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:24 am
by 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!"

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:15 pm
by Portia
Third person omniscient?

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:04 pm
by Emiliana
Portia wrote:Third person omniscient?
Best possible answer to this question.

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:08 am
by vorpal blade
Maybe more like the royal first person plural. :roll:

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:15 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
Fun fact: I occasionally refer to myself as "we." Drives people nuts.

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:54 pm
by 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?

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:15 pm
by 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/

Re: Pronoun Used When Self-Thinking

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:50 pm
by 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.