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Here's a question for those of you who have first languages other than English: when you are snarling at an inanimate object, what voice and tone do you use? Do you address it with a familiar "you"? Do you use the imperative? For example, begging one's valve cap on a brass instrument to "C'mon, seat yourself!" Or shouting at a lawnmower, "You piece of $#!t, start!!"
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