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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: October 20, 2020 02:58PM
Mixing of pronouns and third person in BoM?

OK, this super-wonky, but are there instances in the BoM where JS forgot that he was writing a character in the first-person and changed it to third person, i.e. "I went to the forest" but later switches to "...and as he went to the forest"?
Additionally, are there examples of BoM writers straying from their personal narratives to describe something that they could have no knowledge of? Sort of like an TV episode filmed from a "Character A's" point of view, but then we see other characters doing something that advances the plot, but Character A could not possibly have seen.

Sorry, it's a bit confusing.

Anyway, while unsuccessfully googling for articles about this, I came a Master's these about misuse of archaic English in the BoM--so if you have an hour or more to kill:

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2123&context=open_access_dissertations

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: October 20, 2020 04:35PM
Re: Mixing of pronouns and third person in BoM?

Thanks for pushing forward this find!

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Posted by: RPackham ( )
Date: October 20, 2020 10:49PM
Re: Mixing of pronouns and third person in BoM?

See also my article on this problem:

http://packham.n4m.org/linguist.htm#KINGJAMES

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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: October 21, 2020 12:37AM
Re: Mixing of pronouns and third person in BoM?

How do you think the student did in the thesis? :-)

I was sure, Richard, that you had something of what I was searching for...

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Posted by: dot matrix printer ( )
Date: October 21, 2020 01:55PM
Re: Mixing of pronouns and third person in BoM?

They were drunk when making it up.

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