Word For The Day: Illeism

[eppur_se_muova]

Illeism /ˈɪli.ɪzəm/ (from Latin ille meaning "he, that" ) is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of first person.

Illeism is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device. In real life usage, illeism can reflect a number of different stylistic intentions or involuntary circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210072250 <-- expert answer here

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. mahatmakanejeeves has not heard that word before. His servant will thank you. NT

[ProudLib72]

2. Proudlib72 doesn't always speak of himself in third person

But when he does, he prefers to call it "illeism".

[oberliner]

3. Is there a word for capitalizing letters that aren't meant to be capitalized?

[JHB]

4. Typo.

[oberliner]

5. But he seems to do it deliberately

With certain words.

[JHB]

6. My apologies, I thought you meant in general and involving normal people...

For Prima Donnie, that's merely a subset of what I refer to as "guanopathy".

[canetoad]

7. Yes

Shouting.

[oberliner]

8. I think that's when you put the whole word in caps

Trump has this weird habit of just capitalizing the first letter of certain words that are not proper nouns in his tweets.

[canetoad]

10. You're right

He wishes to draw attention to the momentuous import of his well thought out words.

[Ron Obvious]

9. Ron Obvious likes learning new words.

He will try to work this one in the conversation some time.

[smirkymonkey]

11. smirkymonkey thinks that is a very interesting piece of information.

SM expects that the word will come in handy in the near future.

[milestogo]

12. milestogo thinks that sounds like something having to do with the ileum