>>>>"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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>That's a really weird example. Once you have "he" at the front, why would you switch to plural. Either "he came back because he forgot his hat" or "they came back because they forgot their hat."
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I know some couples where it would be not only PC but gospel truth that they had to come back because he forgot her mobile, bag or something else ;-)