Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look as though he is eating more than he is?all the while surreptitiously scribbling away in a gold-covered notebook designed to look like a cigarette case. Despite his precautions, Fielding is occasionally recognized. Then, as he tells it, displaying his notorious aversion to the first-person-singular pronoun: "We suddenly develop chronic urinary trouble and take the long way around to the lav. We look at the plates of the other diners. We time the service of the people at a table in the corner. We watch the movement at the service tables. We listen to what...
...habit that, Eisenhower confessed, "never ceased to startle me. In reminiscing or in telling stories of the current scene, he talked of himself in the third person. 'So MacArthur went over to the Senator . . .' " Ike later-was to direct historians recording his official speeches to avoid "the perpendicular pronoun"?the simple...
...actions cannot shape their lives. Consequently, they withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...
...kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something, or someone, having to do with the village, which is one reason the village is so important in Vietnamese life...
...sang these songs that paid particular attention to a certain first person singular pronoun, nominative case...