<p>i.e., "so could you go to the park if you wanted to?" instead of "could one go to the park if one wanted to?" or "eating that cookie makes you sick" instead of "eating that cookie makes one sick"</p>
<p>someone told me that it's annoying when i always replace "one" with "you". does anyone else do this? is anyone else annoyed by it?</p>
<p>“I” should replace “you” for the first sentence, if you’re referring to yourself. that second sentence should say “eating that cookie will make you sick.”, if you’re friend is taking that cookie. </p>
<p>using “one” shouldn’t be used in casual conversation =/. it just sounds weird.</p>
<p>It sounds awkward and pretentious. Don’t use it.</p>
<p>For the most part, you can just use the impersonal ‘you’ and it’d sound fine. But the ‘one’ construction is not completely dead; in fact, sometimes I find it seems better than the ‘you’ one. You just need an ear for it – you’re going to come across it for the rest of your life, so you’ll be able to distinguish when you should use ‘one’ and when you should use ‘you.’</p>
<p>(Notice my use of impersonal ‘you’ in that paragraph.)</p>
<p>I use “you” way too much in formal writing. It’s probably because of too much forum posting. My hum profs don’t seem to care.</p>
<p>I used to use “one” a lot though, back when I treated writing as a directed collection of logically-constructed statements rather than a message to another human being.</p>
<p>I hardly every use ‘one’. If someone I knew used it in everyday talking, I would look at them as if they were crazy.</p>
<p>how about, “at the museum i was at yesterday, you could pay $8 to see only the exhibits or $12 to see the exhibits and the show”</p>
<p>i do it all the time…</p>
<p>I use “one” when I’m trying to be funny and make a certain distinction between the personal “you” and the impersonal hypothetical person I’m referring to. </p>
<p>Why’d mj93 change her screen name. That throws me off.</p>
<p>The only time I use “one” is in formal writing.</p>
<p>Yea, I’ve never heard “one” used to mean that in an unpretentious way. It is sort of like saying “It is I.” Used in the past, but now is so strange and impersonal sounding that it has become “obsolete” as Steve Jobs would say ;)</p>
<p>I use “one” in formal writing, especially in English class where my teacher told us never to use “you” in formal writing.</p>
<p>I just used it in my English essay!</p>
<p>“In order to analyze Shakespeare’s invisible forces, one must take a closer look at the mind of Iago during the play.”</p>
<p>My English teacher absolutely HATES when I use “you”. She takes it very offensively, so I always have to change it with “one”.</p>
<p>I get annoyed when people replace ‘you’ with ‘one’ in dialogue. fags.</p>