Editing Spiritual Teachers for Grammatical Honesty, Part 2

Cancelling the Second Person Intrusive Omniscient

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In my previous study of the grammar of popular spiritual literature, I proposed that the “First Person Plural Omniscient” is a hallmark of charismatic speech, which tends to assume an unearned universality. I showed that when the FPPO is substituted for the first person singular in…