Mercnbeth
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...If those present can explain how and why this is acceptable behavior from adults, it would make interesting listening.
in the previous response to the OP, this slave commented not as to what she personally encounters every time she utilizes third-person speech, but as to her overall observations when speaking with folks about it or in the reading of various threads here regarding the topic and when other folks use it.
the PC list of "things to insult another person over" is dwindling. used to be one could make fun of or insult another person's coloring, sexuality, age, culture, gender or socio-economic standing and no-one would bat an eyelash. "bullying" used to be a pretty popular past-time down at the school-yard and this slave got more than her share of it for being odd...the only red-headed freckled-face girl at the entire school. the teachers and administrators couldn't have cared less.
times change.
it would seem that the only things left to insult and make fun of are "choices" like smoking or not speaking/writing as the listener/reader would like them to…and it isn't just the third person talkers that get bagged on, either. there are grammar/spelling/it-isn't-a-word/doesn't-have-any-meaning-unless-it-is-included-in-the-Oxford-dictionary Nazi's as well that jump on folks for their contributions as if there is a grade in it for them at the end of the term.
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...a lot of individuals are rough in their presentation of the form (an issue that comes, I believe, from poor instruction in the grammar of our native tongue in school), but that doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with people who -do- attempt to use it, or who require that their servants use it.
agree, 100%. it's akin to accepting only trans-folks that one deems "passable" and being rude and obnoxious to those who aren't. however, this slave has not had the experience of spending time off-line with others who are instructed to present their thoughts and ideas from a third person perspective, or who choose to do so of their own volition. this slave had no experience utilizing third person speech, or a desire to use it, until Master required it 5 years ago.
With all of the negative put-downs and feedback given to those who attempt it, it is hard to fathom that anyone would undertake it in an effort to be viewed as some sort of “Uber” slave. this slave's first assumption of anyone using it used to be that they were either instructed to by their Owner, or they had a huge public humiliation fetish going on...not that they were feigning some sort of imagined superiority.
as a youngster, this slave was tutored extensively in the living, ever expanding language of English grammar and composition, definitions and usage, spelling and vocabulary by two stay-at-home parents. she had no friends in grammar school other than books.
perhaps if this slave was less proficient in her usage of English, even without the inclusion of a third person perspective, she would not get the occasional "exception/acceptance" she gets from folks that otherwise find third person speech generally annoying/attention-whoring/ego-boosting/crap, etc.
DISCLAIMER: this slave does NOT believe that it is acceptable behavior from adults, but merely attempted to offer some reasons as to how and why it is viewed as acceptable by others, including, but not limited to, those that decide which posts violate established TOS, to insult the preferences or choices of another.
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