Is it possible for someone to talk in the 4th person? If so, give an example.?

Answer 1

There are only 3:
First (I) Told from the point of view of a character in the story.
Second (You) Someone is speaking directly to you as in a command.
Third (He, She, They) Someone outside of the story is describing the action (at least someone who is not describing his/her role in the story).

If you have heard someone make reference to a 4th Person, here's my guess at what he/she must have been talking about:

They are mistaking 3rd Person Omniscient for a 4th Person. 3rd Omniscient is an all-knowing narrator that can see things all of the characters can (including inside their heads and into their thoughts and emotions), all the things that none of the characters can see, and even things that no person is capable of seeing (this narrator essentially has the powers and understanding of God). It differs from standard 3rd Person in that the narrator would know things from all perspectives, not just the perspective of one character. So, possibly, this is where the mistake was made. There are only 3, but the third one has two options, which makes for a total of 4 Classifications for Narration: First Person (I), Second Person (You), Third Person (He, She, They, etc.), and Third Person Omniscient.
I agree that there are only 3 as 3rd Person Omniscient is just a type of 3rd Person. But, in a student's notebook, he or she would have 4 notes on the types of Narrative, although there are only 3 official categories. This is probably where the confusion is coming from--I've seen this same question asked a lot lately.

OR

It is a person mistakenly classifying an author who switches POV in the story as a 4th person. For example, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying switches POV every chapter. Each chapter is told as a first person narrative from a different character (i.e. Darl tells some of the story, then Dewey Dell tells another part of the story, and so on.). This is still not a 4th Person; it is a revolving 1st Person Narrator--a story told in pieces by a cast of participants.

In short, no 4th Person exists--Only 3. But, the two paragraphs above explain how someone may be mistaken into believing a 4th Person exists.

Answer 2

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Okay I'll bite. The word was never in my vocabulary. I don't use racial slurs. But to say I haven't witnessed it or been confused by the usage of the word is an understatement. I think blacks use the "a" at the end to take the stigma out of the word. Its similar to the way how some describe a female dog. They say, ":Beotchhhhh" to try and do the same. It doesn't work. I see woman joke among themselves using the "B" word. It doesn't carry the same weight when a man starts calling a woman that. Same thing with blacks and whites with the "N" word. I remember just this past 4th of July when I was a cookout. It was 95% African American and few white women here and there. Well this 1 white woman (who was obviously feeling it) was dancing a lot in the yard with the Michael Jackson's songs that was being played. In another part of the yard a few black women who were dancing were screaming, "go white girl, go white girl go". I guessed she didn't mind because she started dancing more. But how racists was that? I just kept imagining if things were on the opposite foot would they have reacted the same around a bunch of white people yelling, "go black girl, go black girl go" I am an African American Male.

Answer 3

Fourth person is a distant and impersonal third written in professional and unemotional language--think textbooks. Proper names are used instead of pronouns, usually just last names after the first mention, and no persuasion is used. It is just specific hard facts, no embellishment. It is used in non-persuasive scientific writing and grant proposals.

For example, "Dr. James Johnson put cell culture A into dish A and labeled it for stage two of the test. Johnson's recent paper highlighted how Johnson's theories may improve viral testing procedure accuracy by 40%."

Answer 4

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Answer 5

In English there is usually only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. English does make a few exceptions such as "one should be prepared" but you can't really talk in the 4th person.

Answer 6

4th Person

Answer 7

No. Grammar (verb forms) allow only 3 persons with singular and plural in each one: I, you, he/she/it, we/you/they.
To talk in the fourth person, you would have to define a new relationship with the language.
Most authors who want to go beyond usual viewpoints go to more complex ways of handling multple viewpoints - John Dos Pasos pulling in real and made up news clippings and radio talks. S.M.Stirling hopping to various scenes with only a few words of clue to the reader to establish the new context.

Answer 8

The word "*****" along with any of it's different forms is so offensive that you can't even bring yourself to properly type it out. Heck, I felt uncomfortable typing it too. In other words, you already have your own answer.

Answer 9

only Chuck Norris can talk in the fourth person

Answer 10

There is you, there is me, and there is them; if there's a fourth "group," I've never heard of it.