alt Hacker NewsInteresting. Are you a native English speaker? You in the general case is used quite a lot and I wouldn't be able to handle every single article or reference using that to mean to refer to me specifically.
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yoz-y • yesterday at 2:45 PM
Am not. Recently I started reading more classic literature and realized just how much my comprehension is lacking, even after working in English exclusively for years.
But it does? It's generic, meaning you the reader are fully interchangeable with other possible subjects. At least that's the connotation it carries for me, and for what it's worth I'm a native speaker. If the reader (ie the target audience from the author's perspective) isn't interchangeable then I'd expect some other article to be used (ex they, the relevant professional, an interested party, etc).