Also sometimes called the 0th person (e.g. in the Finnish language)
It is grammatical tone used for generative indefinite referents.
People speak in 4th person when they want to make a general statement that applies to not just one particular person, or scenario, but instead universally. This is usually in the context of administering a command, asserting a universal moral claim, or in an academic lecturing style.
It is not typically used in everyday conversation. If you speak in the 4th person to someone, it can come across as if you are being impersonal/depersonalizing them, or ordering them / lecturing them.
Some linguists believe that the 4th person is not a real thing, but instead is actually just an extension of the 3rd person. If you take the perspective that the subject in 4th person perspective is an actual existing entity (e.g. a human, animal etc.), then it is the 3rd person, but if you do not assign a actual existing entity, then it remains in the general indefinite. In this regard, it is similar to the mathematical / logical statements, which exist without a subject.
Sometimes it used in a subtle ways such as when people make moral claims and use the term 'you' as a subject, but it is used as an indefinite general 'you' as opposed to a specific person that is being spoken to. Usually people do this unknowingly, and it is usually so subtle that it doesn't call for any acknowledgement in conversation.
It is grammatical tone used for generative indefinite referents.
People speak in 4th person when they want to make a general statement that applies to not just one particular person, or scenario, but instead universally. This is usually in the context of administering a command, asserting a universal moral claim, or in an academic lecturing style.
It is not typically used in everyday conversation. If you speak in the 4th person to someone, it can come across as if you are being impersonal/depersonalizing them, or ordering them / lecturing them.
Some linguists believe that the 4th person is not a real thing, but instead is actually just an extension of the 3rd person. If you take the perspective that the subject in 4th person perspective is an actual existing entity (e.g. a human, animal etc.), then it is the 3rd person, but if you do not assign a actual existing entity, then it remains in the general indefinite. In this regard, it is similar to the mathematical / logical statements, which exist without a subject.
Sometimes it used in a subtle ways such as when people make moral claims and use the term 'you' as a subject, but it is used as an indefinite general 'you' as opposed to a specific person that is being spoken to. Usually people do this unknowingly, and it is usually so subtle that it doesn't call for any acknowledgement in conversation.
"One should always do that" - the usage of the indefinite referent 'one' implies the 4th person
"Thou shalt not kill" - the usage of the indefinite referent 'thou' implies the 4th person
"Thou shalt not kill" - the usage of the indefinite referent 'thou' implies the 4th person
by Gilgamesh100 August 14, 2019
Get the 4th personmug. A personal mute can be said to be a "sidekick" in a way. Most of the arrangements are mutual and are usually some form of roleplaying in VRChat.
The personal mute bond is a partnership, not slavery and any such suggestion is highly frowned upon. Fucking your mute is against the rules and can result in the termination of the mute partnership.
A "personal mute" should NOT be confused with being a "mute" in VRChat, who are simply players who either can't speak or decide not to speak.
The personal mute bond is a partnership, not slavery and any such suggestion is highly frowned upon. Fucking your mute is against the rules and can result in the termination of the mute partnership.
A "personal mute" should NOT be confused with being a "mute" in VRChat, who are simply players who either can't speak or decide not to speak.
by bittersweetfate July 15, 2021
Get the Personal Mutemug. An individual's experience of a sense of fulfillment of a need or want and the quality or state of being satisfied.
by Udossa June 23, 2016
Get the personal satisfactionmug. Someone who's successful in life. He/she has survived school and university. Has no debt. Is very intelligent. Has a stable marriage. And has truly beaten everyone else
by Trajan Anntonius May 27, 2019
Get the Successful personmug. by SecretSquirrel69 November 15, 2022
Get the personal reasonsmug. by lets get throwed/hang out June 11, 2009
Get the laughy personmug. When people play loud music off their phone as they are walking along the street/sitting on a bus. Quite annoying really.
That guy with baggy jeans and baseball cap was playing a personal soundtrack of drum & bass off his phone as he passed me in the street. Hasn't he ever heard of headphones?
by Mr Munchkins March 3, 2008
Get the Personal Soundtrackmug.