Why are 3rd party services 3rd party and not 2nd party?
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Because it follows the rules of grammar for pronouns and subject of verbs.
First person – I and we.
Second person — You.
Third person — He / she / it / they.
People use the term third party service to refer generically to a service offered by someone else (he, she, they). Although I have never heard the term “second party service,” I have heard the term second party when referring to a contract (where I am the first party and you are the second party).
Edit to add – not sure if there is anyway to ELI5. It drove me nuts in elementary school they my 4th grade teacher told us about first and third person, but would not (could not) tell me about the second person. It seemed so illogical. It wasn’t until I took a foreign language in 7th grade that a teacher could finally explain what the second person was. Not sure if this is an indictment on English teachers in the US generally since I went to a demonstrably good school or if elementary school kids can only handle first and third person, but not second person.
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