On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 17:33 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 Jun 2011, darkestkhan wrote: > > > > Maybe it is time for big revolution in English language of XXI century > > - the revival of pronoun "one". > > For one thing, I'm still encountering pronoun "one", and it is quite > > often, so I wouldn't be so hasty to this judgment of effective death > > (though it may be caused by wandering in strange dark corners of > > Internet). > > > > darkestkhan > > I think the avoidance of 'one' is mainly an American usage. In British > English it is used quite frequently, In fact, there is a long-standing > joke about the tendency of members of the Royal Family, especially > Prince Charles, to say 'one' instead of 'I'.
In my case, my English simply is broken. 'One' was for 'somebody' not for 'I'. Btw. I can't believe that it's possible to translate Hegel to English, since it's disputed what his message is. His individual German already needs translation into regular German. So somebody first has to be sure what Hegel wants to say, before he will be able to translate him. Very strange, resp. dubious, there are translations of Hegel: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/ http://www.hegel.org/index.html Anyway, German is a very strange language and as a German native speaker with a large vocabulary and no gift for languages, my translations are sometimes similar to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ "Don't Panic" (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307812243.2378.243.camel@debian
