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[consul tores <consultores1@gmail.com>]

2011/6/11 Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>:
> 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'.
>
>
> --
> Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk

Anthony

You might mean USian, it seems that in Canada is usually used.