>>>>>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.
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>Exactly what doomed them(selves). They keep the gender, ergo they'll vanish.
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>And it still lacks the reflexive possesive pronoun (suus in latin) - so "in lingua sua" becomes "in one's [own?] language" etc.
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>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").
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>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.

On our side of the pond, a UofT professor is in a shootstorm over pronoun usage: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.3786140/i-m-not-a-bigot-meet-the-u-of-t-prof-who-refuses-to-use-genderless-pronouns-1.3786144