find it weird when people talk about themselves in the first person?

[allswellthatroswell]

I don't know many.

But one woman (we'll call her Lauren) who I work with does this constantly.

For example f I ask "would you like a cup of coffee?"

She replies "yes, but first Lauren has to make a phone call"

Is it me, or is that just plain weird?

[ChippyMintCandyCane]

It is odd (but I don't think that's 'first person' is it? - waits to be stood in the dunces corner)

[Wallison]

It's weird. She's weird. I hope she's not your friend, because otherwise that would make you weird for having weird friends. You weirdo.

[WileywithSageStuffing]

Wiley agrees it is totally weird

[Illgetmycoat]

I think it's the third person. Sarah Ferguson does it.

[tak1ngchances]

That's the third person

[Firawla]

yes that is weird!

[WankbadgersBauble]

I have a weird feeling Julius Caesar did that, too. However, that doesn't preclude your friend from being a tad doolally.

[PoppyAmex]

That's the third person and yes it's bizarre.

Football players and lounge lizards do it quite often.

[MrsMerryMeeple]

That's the third person.

First person = I or we
Second person = you (single or plural)
Third person = he, she, they

And yes, referring to yourself in the third person is odd. Pretentious, unless of course you are the reigning monarch, in which case it's just old fashioned (IMHO).

[FuriousRox]

That's the third person and yes it's totally odd.

I refer to myself in the third person a lot but that's because I have a toddler. If I did it in any other context I would definitely expect funny looks!

[InsertCleverNameChangeHere]

Is she a mum? You know how you refer to yourself as mummy to the DCs, maybe she forgets herself? I know I've nearly called myself mummy in work more than once!

Even at that, it's still a weird thing to do. And it's third person, first person is 'I'

[valiumredhead]

It's third person and it's bizarre and I would laugh at anyone who did that

[Celticlassie]

It is a bit like 'mummy needs to go round to grandma's, then when she gets back, you and mummy will make a cake'. Kids must spend much of this early life wondering 'who is this mummy you speak of? When's she getting here?'

Why not 'I'?

[Celticlassie]

Oops... Cross posted.

[allswellthatroswell]

Lol. Ok sorry I'm stupid.

It is third person, yes you are all right.

[Jingleflobba]

As a one off like PP's have said getting mixed up with 'mummy has to..' It would be fine, but all the time is very weird... Do you have to wait for her to speak to you first, does she insist in everyone standing when shewalks into the room?
Is she in fact the queen?

[TrillsCarolsOutOfTune]

First person: I
Second person: You
Third person: He/She/They

So YABU to find it weird when someone talks about themselves in the first person.

Parents do it all the time to their children. "Mummy is doing this".

[Nancy66]

Weird - does she work in HR? They're all a bit like that...

[Wallison]

As an aside, if I was the Queen I would spend all of my free time walking into and out of rooms just for a laugh.

[WhereAngelsFearToTread]

I used to have a friend who referred to herself as 'me' as in 'me is tired' which I found odd.

As a tangent, I absolutely loved 'Bright Lights, Big City' which is written in the second tense, as soon as I'd got over the weirdness of sentences like 'you wonder how...' etc.

[Saltycopporn]

I knew someone who used to commentate on themselves in the whispered style of a snooker commentator. Not while they were playing snooker by the way, while they were doing paperwork, making tea etc

[cumfy]

cumfy finds this entirely normal.

[DragonMamma]

Very weird indeed.

[monsterchild]

Monsterchild wonders if the Queen calls herself My Majesty when she's having some inner monologue, or just Betsy?

[NoKnidForABed]

We do find this very strange indeed.