What would it mean to write in the fourth person?

What would it mean to write in the fourth person?

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your future self

Future is the wrong term, its more like to write outside time itself.

your outside future self

It wouldn't mean anything because there are only three persons.

Observe:

___________________________________________________SUCC_________________________________________________

What are their names?

First, Second and Third

Those are some weird names. Their parents mustn't have liked them very much.

You took the words out of my fingers.

They didn't have any parents as they are abstract concepts.

impressive

i think it would be some meta shit
"the author states that the people in the story did this action"

Oh, orphans... how sad.. :(

Is a novel written as a stream of time the next step?

It means using special non-binary pronouns like zie and zir for your genderqueer character

Write a novel where events happen backwards but the character views them as if he was at the beginning of the events, so they have no idea what is happening.

Woah nelly

>mustn't
disgusting

>taking my bait
Revolting.

First and second person - participants of a story
Third person - observer of the story and its participants
By that logic fourth person - observer of the observer, I guess? So, like a narrative in which a narrator relies a story previously told to him by another character would be fourth person, no?

That exists, but it's not what you have on mind. Check out Cubeo language. They have a particle for to mark the protagonist and their actions.

I read about this in 'Pragmatics' by Levinson, if I remember correctly.

but how do we know the story is passed on?

Did Plato write Symposium in the forth person?

I think'd be more like a narrator narrating about another narrator as its happening, like describing the situation and relaying the story as the lesser narrator is telling it, thus the story being entirely in the form of dialogue, and any non dialogue is just the descriptions of the lesser narrator, his audience, whatever room he is in, etc

Here, I found it.
Pic rel.

The book is called Pragmatics, it's by Stephen C. Levinson. The page is 88, if you are interested.

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Demetri Martin joke:
>Some authors write in first person and others write in third person. But I'm writing my book in fifth person, so every sentence starts out with: 'I heard from this guy who told somebody....'

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

There's a DFW story that does this in Oblivion.

wew lad

Four actually, if you counted God.

XD

whoa.....

God fucking kek'd

third person basically is god.

Its like seeing in the fourth dimension, but i bet your IQ is to low for that.

No no, God isn't third person. God is three aspects in one person.

Came here to post this

which are which?

I
You
He/she/it
We
You(plural)
Them

Ghost writing a third person text.

This.

them is third person

Isn't We 4th person? Is Veeky Forums this retarded?

We is first person plural

this is this.

No, He'a three persons in one entity

fuck off
heretics these days

Concepts don't have emotions

Do their parents?

As stated already, Concepts do not have progenitors

If fourth person is just switching around in time, then isn't Infinite Jest fourth person?

Fucking tearing it up tonight m80.

But I believe there is a grammatical construct sometimes referred to as 4th person in Irish, Finnish, and some other languages, which is somewhat like an impersonal statement like "It is said." So you'd have to write a whole fucking book solely of impersonal statements, though perhaps such a gimmick might be interesting for a very short short story.

Fourth is usted

I could actually probably stomach that for a short story, if it isn't too overdone.

read the Voynich Manuscript and find out