• @Rolando@lemmy.world
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    1016 months ago

    I can’t tell if you’re making a joke or not, but when I learned it “we” was first person plural. Likewise “y’all” was second person plural, etc.

    • SuperDuper
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      6 months ago

      The difference is that we as a first person plural is generally used for a more discrete group of people, but still from the perspective of a single narrator. Fourth person we is generally used for a collective of people with a shared perspective; there is no single narrator that is separate from the collective group, the entire group is there narrator. Fourth person is a concept that has only recently begun to be recognized as a distinct point of view.

      • @Brocken40@sh.itjust.works
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        26 months ago

        If you believe in string perspective there are infinite narrators narrating each other’s narrations and we have only just started to make words for the infinities.