I suppose all the kids out on MySpace and Facebook made everything up as well?
"TheWho" - you are clearly a very disturbed individual. It's shameful that you would attempt to belittle and degrade the experience of an individual(s) of which you have no first hand knowledge or interaction. You obviously take pleasure in being a cyber-bully (probably because you're a weak person whom one one respects in real life). So what's your agenda? Is it to attack teens/young adults so you can feel better about yourself? Take a good look at yourself because you are a disgraceful, hateful person.
http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus ... FA43678423
No, you have it wrong, go back and read some of his past posts.
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Dear Evan: Someone just recently wrote a column about Senator Robert Dole's propensity to refer to himself not as "I" or "me" but as "Bob Dole." There must be a name for someone who does this. I am familiar with the editorial "we" -- which some wag said should only be used by royalty, newspaper editors, or persons with parasitic infestation -- but didn't realize there might be a word that describes one who refers to himself in the third person, or I suppose by his own name, as Dole does continuously. Is his use of his own name the same as using the third person and does this qualify him as an "illeist"? That word is hard to find except in the Oxford English Dictionary or Latin dictionaries but describes one who makes much use of the pronoun "he," or writes of himself as "he." -- George Bower, via the internet.
I must admit that I haven't been paying as much attention to the presidential campaign as I probably should have been, relying as I do for my current affairs updates on a combination of tea leaves and conversations overheard on the subway. I do try to read the daily newspaper, of course, but my parakeet gets in the way.
In any case, I wasn't aware of Senator Dole's odd habit, possibly because I had become so used to the Republican candidates referring to each other in the remote-as-possible third person that I simply failed to notice that one of them was doing it to himself. As a name for someone who habitually refers to him- or herself in the third person, "illeist" (from the Latin "ille," meaning "he" or "that man") seems to fill the bill. Illeism, a term coined in the early 19th century, is usually considered an affectation of bad writers, but I think we can safely include almost all politicians in that category.
It'll be interesting to see if that article you mention prompts Senator Dole's handlers to insist that he knock it off. As a rhetorical device, this sort of thing works once or twice, but after a while you begin to remind the voters of either Tarzan or Miss Piggy, neither of whom has a particularly good track record at the polls.
