Kip completely agrees with Thom’s assessment of writers using third-person…

However, if Thom wants some pointers on how to do this most effectively, a call to Karl Malone is in order.

Seriously, I completely agree with you, Thom–Especially in a blogging context!

A person very much resembling Robert says that they are underachieving and need to take it to another level:

“Some languages do not contrast voices, but similar-looking persons. For example, Baltic-Finnic languages such as Finnish and Estonian have a “passive”, which is conceptually more of a never-mentioned “fourth person” than variation of subjectivity or objectivity. For example, translating the sentence “The house was blown down” as Talo puhallettiin maahan would give the idea that some unmentioned person is blowing the house down by the force of his breath. Also, transitivity may be used, e.g. the fourth-person Ongelma ratkaistiin (transitive) means “Someone solved the problem”, while the fourth-person Ongelma ratkesi (intransitive anticausative) means “The problem was solved”.”