Bothered by People Talking in the Third Person? (minicast) - 13. Aug. 2009

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🗓️ 13 August 2009

⏱️ 6 minutes

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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. -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.7	My question is about people speaking in the third person.
1:20.4	I'd like to know what it comes from and why people still do it these days and why it's even called third person.
1:26.4	Tell me how you're hearing it.
1:28.0	Well I occasionally hear it usually with celebrities on TV most notably lately Roland Burris the senator from
1:35.9	Illinois occasionally will speak in third person and to me I kind of find it a bit
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