Kefo's Guide to RP

Chloe_A_Country_Gal said:
So was bored af and just looking through forums when I found this and had to look lol. Kefo, you said rp is only between 2 people. It isn't love, there are rp clubs so I can gaurentee that it's not just 2...also you put rp was made for online..again not true, people have been rp-ing/pretending long before the internet. Lol also the examples you've shown us..the one person who didnt use */- rped wrong lol always gotta use those...Otherwise thanks for the read love!!
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I'll grant you the first point. If I didn't say 2 or more people, I should have.
(I said 'usually 2' implying it could be more, but I shoulda made it clearer)

Second point is fair, but I think it's obvious that I'm talking about RP as a genre of literature.
 
I just noticed where you say "first person" in the first couple of examples, it's actually third person without the pronoun/subject of the sentence.
First person would be: *I walk into the room silently* is anyone awake? *I put extra care into stepping as softly as possible to not wake anyone up*

The verb with no final 'S', besides the first person pronoun "I".


Disclaimer: my English grammar and other aspects of this language are far from perfect, but I'm still a bit of a grammarnazi, especially if you're teaching something about it.
 
Quimey said:
I just noticed where you say "first person" in the first couple of examples, it's actually third person without the pronoun/subject of the sentence.
First person would be: *I walk into the room silently* is anyone awake? *I put extra care into stepping as softly as possible to not wake anyone up*

The verb with no final 'S', besides the first person pronoun "I".


Disclaimer: my English grammar and other aspects of this language are far from perfect, but I'm still a bit of a grammarnazi, especially if you're teaching something about it.
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^ It's a nuanced bit of grammar that I hadn't thought about consciously.

It would look strange to people who are unfamiliar with rp... However, in RP, usually it is assumed that you are RP'ing as your own character, so the "I" is redundant.

You would say *~other character~ does x, y, z* if rp'ing as another participant, however if you're rp'ing as yourself, there's no need to say I because it's assumed.

The s on the verb actually somehow reinforces that. I'm not sure how to explain it but take the example of

*walk out of the room*... Some noobs write like this when rp'ing. It is weird. They've learnt to remove the I" out the front which is common but it's... Still weird.

If someone just wrote *walk out*, this would confuse me... Idk why. Maybe the difference in grammar between having an implied and stated object.

*walks out* makes a lot more sense in the context of RP.

I wouldn't say that someone was wrong if they said *I walk out*, it's just a lesser used/alternative, but also valid variant of *walks out*.


Thanks for bringing it up, though :)
 
I mean, yes, I noticed long ago that in rp it is conventional to just use always third person when referring to own character's actions.


As you may suppose, I only pointed out just the wrongly calling it 'first person' (if we are talking about grammatical person)...


I'm aware it'd be unusual or weird to use first person the way I did in the previous example (but I've seen it, though!).


And you're very welcome. I'm not an expert in English, far from that, but I'm a Spanish teacher so I have some general grammar concepts very, erm, attached to me, so sometimes I can't let go these little things.
 
I see now :lol: I'll try and get it edited. All my examples were third person.

Do you knlw how it would look if it was first person, or do people just not rp in first person?

Ig it would be that "walk out* example that I find so uncouth :D
 
Kefo said:
I see now :lol: I'll try and get it edited. All my examples were third person.

Do you knlw how it would look if it was first person, or do people just not rp in first person?

Ig it would be that "walk out* example that I find so uncouth :D
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It'd look WITH the pronoun! I.e.: *I slap you* Leave me alone!!!

Might not be common, but I've seen it.

Time to visit rp clubs or get into rp people dms. Sooner or later, you'll see it by yourself (unless such people gets corrected/pushed by others into using third person).
 
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