>>>>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.
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>>>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 :)
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>No. Desipite rumors to the contrary, English does have a reflexive. "xxxself" acts as the reflexive, but you have to match the "xxx" properly
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>I look at myself
>You look at yourself
>He looks at himself
>She looks at herself
>They look at themselves
>One looks at onesself (spelling might be a little off)
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>Misuse of the reflexive is seen constantly, even among educated people who should know better.
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>Please contact A, B, or myself (should be me), etc.
>is a common example.
English is not my mother's tongue and therefore I can be excused of making grammatical mistakes :)
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