Re: Use of "One" vs "A Person"

On 30 Sep 2005, Troy Steadman wrote

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> "One can never tell for sure" is pretentious. Unpretentious people
> say "You can never tell for sure", but when written that can
> become ambiguous.

Which is why some unpretentious people choose to write "one can never
tell for sure", and might have written it often enough that it's become
second nature to say it, too.

For sure, one can never tell.

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Cheers, Harvey
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