THE AWKWARD PRONOUN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 19

THE AWKWARD PRONOUN.

SUGOESTED ALTERXATIVES. Ons sometimes feels—does nun rot? (says “Mark Over" in the Outlook)—that ons needs a new pronoun to take the place of "one,’' especially in one's writing. A certain essayist tnot lor worlds would one name him, seeing that. he is one of on'o very good friends), a certain essayist then, must, one imagines, ne feeling that need very acutely, if he has read in cold blood, or had read out to him, a sentence in hra recently published collection of e-saays. One snows, of course, how easily one can become entangled in one’s ones; but this _ sentence really does give one a twist in one’s tongue if one does not take it very carefully. Here it is; the contest does not matter:—“lt is indeed, at such moments that one almost wonders whether a holiday is not so much an opportunity of enjoying those things of which, above all others, one enjoys the doing' as a temporary depriving of oneself of the things one values most in order that one may, when one again has them, enjoy them more.” Well , . . .? One really does not know whether to envy or admire; but before one does cither—cr laughs—one must consider the alternatives open to the writer; not only to this writer, but to all writers’; who have discovered reason to deplore the paucity of our language. The alternatives are three—T, we, and yon.