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Talking in the Third Person (minicast)
August 13, 2009 11:03 am
(@grantbarrett)
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Does it bug you when people talk about themselves in the third person? A caller finds herself mightily annoyed by this habit, which she observes especially among politicians and celebrities. There's a word for the practice of referring to oneself in the third person: illeism.
This is a minicast originally posted August 13, 2009.
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