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4th person pronoun? (startrek.website)
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[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've looked it up and the official name is "obviative" and it is sometimes referred to as the "fourth person".

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That still sounds like a special type of third person, though I guess that's just disagreeing about terminology.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I see why you would analyze it that way but I also see that it deserves a term in its own rights. As you said, it's all terminology. There are no objective definitions, at least not in linguistics