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The sorry decline of 'one' as a suppositional pronoun saddens me. It also leads to people taking offence when a hypothetical argument appears to be addressed to ' you '. English used to be gendered, way back when. It used to have pronouns that distinguished between ' you singular ', ' you all ' and ' you two '. That it shed all those things, along with noun declensions and inflected verb endings, making it increasingly simple, may have been partially responsible for making it one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. For the record I hate the ambiguity of 'they'.