>>>>>"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?".
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>>I have heard Slavic (specifically Russian and Ukrainian) expressions that sound as weird as in any language.
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>There will always be weird specific expressions, but what I'm describing is far closer (sic!) to regular usage. First you have the complete lack of verb forms (first and second person singular is identical to all persons plural is identical to imperative is identical to infinitive) so you must use pronouns for pretty much every verb. Then you forbid some pronouns and have to use wrong ones instead. The mess is complete, and it's not in just specific expressions, it's just whenever a third person is mentioned more than once in a sentence. A simple sentence turns into a minefield.

I feel so bad for you that you have to use (hopefully not all the time but only when you come into UT) this grammatically messy language full of minefields. I am simply wondering, why do you torture yourself ...