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My understanding is that the standard usage is to employ the second person singular instead of the first when expressing this.
by 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 agoAnd 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.