In my work, I often hear “self in french”. It is a word that I use quite a bit because it is a way to convey the idea of the self-referential nature of words. I often use the word in writing because it is the closest thing to saying “self”. I also use this word a lot in speaking as well.
I use this word a lot when I am speaking in a language I am not fluent in. I use this word because I know the meaning (and often the source) of the word. But I am not fluent in that language so I often use the word in a manner that is close to that of the native speaker, in which case it is an approximation.
I use this word a lot in speaking because I don’t believe I speak French as well as I’d like to. The truth is, I speak French a little imperfectly, yet I can understand the words I hear. For example, I often say “Je parle” in French, which is closer to the way I use it in English, and yet I can understand the meaning of my speaker.
Just like the English word “self”, you can use the word “self” in French to refer to yourself, but if you use it in this way, you’re not really talking about yourself. When you say yourself, you’re talking about yourself more than you are talking about yourself, which is why it’s not a good idea to say you yourself in French.
But what if you dont use it in that way? That’s why, for example, the word I use to refer to myself is myself. And what do you mean by that? You mean that you are yourself more than you are yourself? That would mean that you are the person that you were before you got a new personality.
The way the word self is being used here is to emphasize that the self you’re talking about is only a part of your personality. In other contexts the word self is much more inclusive and less specific than what I just said. But in this context the word self is being used in the sense I mentioned earlier and I’m being as specific as I can be about what I mean by the self.
I was thinking about this when I was reading the new trailer for Deathloop. What was interesting is that the person we’re told is a “self” is named “Colt.” He’s not the same person you’ve been before you got a new personality, so he has a different “self” then you do.
We have to be careful that when we speak in generalities we don’t say anything about the self when we’re specifically referring to Colt. Saying the person is self is vague enough to allow people to misinterpret what we actually mean. The new trailer we saw also implies Colt is actually trying to kill Visionaries on Deathloop. That’s not only confusing, it’s very confusing.
This could come up when we are in the future, where every time Colt kills a Visionary, he is on Deathloop. The question is if he will stay here and become someone with a completely new self when he meets a new one. We dont know what that self will be yet, but we will probably get a better idea later.
The question is, are we on a Time Loop or a Death Loop? If we are on a Time Loop then Colt Vahn is a zombie killer in the future.