• @sugar_in_your_tea
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    246 months ago

    Fourth person

    Doesn’t exist. We/us is first person plural. Some languages have a little complexity here (e.g. Tagalog has “kami” which means “we without you” and “tayo” which means “we with you,” but they’re both still first person plurals).

    • first person - speaker
    • second person - audience excluding speaker
    • third person - everything else
    • SuperDuper
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      26 months ago

      Some linguists disagree and have recently begun accepting the existence of a fourth person point of view. Languages evolve, and I guess we’ll just have to see if it catches on and becomes more widely accepted in the future.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea
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        56 months ago

        I’ll have to look into that, and I’d appreciate why sources you have handy.