>>>"one does not want to look at oneself in the mirror ... the manner in which one behaves"
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>>>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 :).
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>And the usage of "their" because there's no "svoi" and "his or hers" is even more awkward. As in "he came back because they forgot their hat"... makes me ask "did really all of them forget their one collective hat?".
I have heard Slavic (specifically Russian and Ukrainian) expressions that sound as weird as in any language.
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