>>>>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.

Exactly what doomed them(selves). They keep the gender, ergo they'll vanish.

And it still lacks the reflexive possesive pronoun (suus in latin) - so "in lingua sua" becomes "in one's [own?] language" etc.

Too bad, this painting of collective selves into a corner was completely unnecessary. The new rules forbid the simpler constructs with pronouns and OTOH have absolutely nothing to say about the kludgy stacking of six or more nouns ("network-level peer authentication, data origin authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality (encryption), and replay protection", "certificate and key management services for the Network Access Protection Agent" - just try to detect words which can't be nouns, and aren't among "for", "the", "and").

Amazingly, though, when I read any text from 30 or 40 years ago, or older, there is no ambiguity, it doesn't sound so strained, and everything is clear. As a foreigner I may only glean a part of what happened in the meantime, what changed, but I feel the effects of it. It's not just the extra rules imposed by political correctivity, there is more to it, just can't put finger on it.