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31/10/2016 08:18:23
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Employment
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Background check
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Miscellaneous
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01642418
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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 :)
>>>>>
>>>>>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 :)
>>>
>>>Actually "oneself" and "one" would be correct:
>>>
>>>"one does not want to look at oneself in the mirror ... the manner in which one behaves"
>>>
>>>Tamar
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>>This 'oneself' sounds so stilted; I have not heard it a colloquial conversation. Maybe in books written in the 19 century thought :).
>
>Well, with "one" as the subject, it's the right word. I think the whole sentence is pretty stilted.
>
>Tamar
If you go back to the initial message I wrote, you will see that I replied to Marcia's message. And using 'you don't want to look at yourself in the mirror ... blablabla' could have sounded insulting (since I know that Marcia still looks fabulous :)). Thus, I had to use an impersonal "one".
>>>>>
>>>>>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 :)
>>>
>>>Actually "oneself" and "one" would be correct:
>>>
>>>"one does not want to look at oneself in the mirror ... the manner in which one behaves"
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>This 'oneself' sounds so stilted; I have not heard it a colloquial conversation. Maybe in books written in the 19 century thought :).
>
>Well, with "one" as the subject, it's the right word. I think the whole sentence is pretty stilted.
>
>Tamar
If you go back to the initial message I wrote, you will see that I replied to Marcia's message. And using 'you don't want to look at yourself in the mirror ... blablabla' could have sounded insulting (since I know that Marcia still looks fabulous :)). Thus, I had to use an impersonal "one".
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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
"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