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30/10/2016 08:52:08
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30/10/2016 04:48:20
John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Forum:
Employment
Category:
Background check
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01642418
Message ID:
01642473
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>>>>At some point in our life, one does not want to look at yourself in the mirror - morning, afternoon, or night; regardless of in which manner he/she behaves :)
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>>>But I have to, sometimes. Nobody else will wink at me.
>>>
>>>In other news, your sentence is a perfect example of the jumble created in english by the lack of reflective pronoun (sebe/se, себя, sich, maga - almost all other languages have one), So... in OUR life, ONE (which one?) wants to look at YOU! Wow... In any other language this is simple.
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>>I should have written 'himself/herself' instead of 'yourself.' In Spanish I would have to use the same grammar construct since they don't have 'sebia' either. And in French the same. So maybe only Slavic languages are so perfect :)
>
>But they do have 'se'. 'lavarse la manos'
Yes. But I think this is different from the Slavic 'sebia'.
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>>>But I have to, sometimes. Nobody else will wink at me.
>>>
>>>In other news, your sentence is a perfect example of the jumble created in english by the lack of reflective pronoun (sebe/se, себя, sich, maga - almost all other languages have one), So... in OUR life, ONE (which one?) wants to look at YOU! Wow... In any other language this is simple.
>>
>>I should have written 'himself/herself' instead of 'yourself.' In Spanish I would have to use the same grammar construct since they don't have 'sebia' either. And in French the same. So maybe only Slavic languages are so perfect :)
>
>But they do have 'se'. 'lavarse la manos'
Yes. But I think this is different from the Slavic 'sebia'.
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham