• Shihali@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    While in very formal English “one” is the generic pronoun and “you” is addressed to you personally, in casual English “you” is the generic pronoun with the same meaning as formal written French “on”.

    So the post above wasn’t a personal attack. It used “you” to mean “one”.

    Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you

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        1 year ago

        I was trying to be charitable by assuming you badly misunderstood the comment because English was your second language. The alternatives are that you, in your own words, lack “the basic literacy of at least a second grader” or that you misread it on purpose to give yourself an excuse to pick a fight.

        Enjoy the fight that you sacrificed your own dignity to start.