Another linguistic observation

[rhu]

My mother was sharing family pictures with the kids this morning, and my 3.5-year-old daughter asked, in regards to one family picture taken before she was born: "Where is me?"

She's perfectly capable of asking "Where am I?" when she doesn't know where her corporeal being is at the moment. But I thought it was fascinating that when she was asking about the location of her avatar, she switched to using "me" as a third-person pronoun.

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

How very nuanced! It's an extrapolation or imitation of someone pointing at a photo and saying, "This is me."