What's wrong with referring to oneself in the third person? That used to be a very common way of talking in English, and in many languages today, that's still the normal way of talking. I'd far rather hear a player talking about himself in the third person than using the generic "you," which is a huge pet peeve of mine. Any time I hear someone saying, "You do " and "You think" and "You try," I always want to bark back, "Speak for yourself, for godsake."
I know it's a losing battle, but I'm on a one-man crusade to bring back the third person "one." "One does" and "One thinks" and "One tries." People say it sounds too stuffy and formal. Bah. Maybe this world needs a bit more formality. The fact is it's more honest. There's got to be some peculiar psychological quirk behind attributing everything to the generic "you," but I'm not sure what it is. The Germans eschew the generic "you" in favor of the third-person man ("one"). I've seen them take it to rather amusing extremes. For example, rather than saying, Wir warten auf dich unten ("We're waiting for you downstairs"), I actually once saw, Man wartet auf dich unten ("One waits for you downstairs.") As odd as that sounds, I still prefer it to the generic "you."
Who are you to tell me what I think, do, try, etc.? ;)
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote: