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I can't believe people downvoted you for talking about yourself in a manner that could be considered arrogant except they didn't realize you were actually just

• Bakary 9y ago
  My understanding is that the standard usage is to employ the second person singular instead of the first when expressing this.
  • Hydraulix989 9y ago
    And then it's mistaken instead to be a direct insult because the same people who don't have a firm enough grasp on the English language to correctly comprehend hypothetical speech in the first-person case are also not going to understand the hypothetical second-person case either; instead, these people will also misconstrue that the speaker is directly referring to themselves.