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Keeno
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16 Mar 2009, 5:47 pm

Who else seems to be talked to in the third person a lot?

That is, when someone is asking how you are, it's not "How are you today?". It's "How's Keeno today?".

I seem to get this several times a day, every day.

Who else is irked by it? About people effectively talking about you, as if not directly to you, when you are there?



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16 Mar 2009, 5:51 pm

No one has ever talked to me like that and I've never seen anyone talk like that. I do think it sounds rather funny though like in the Seinfeld episode, where some guy kept calling himself, Jimmy.



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16 Mar 2009, 6:53 pm

Reply in the third person "Keeno is not amused"...;)

Ask them why they act this way...are they not grown up?



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16 Mar 2009, 8:34 pm

This happens to me a lot. I've started to do it myself because I thought it was just what people did, but the results were not quite right. So I started to think people only do this to someone they think is weird. Wish I had an answer for you, sorry!


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