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This is a valid way to read 'it'. The title is written poorly; I've found that, in order to reduce ambiguity in referential language, 'it' should generally refe
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
This is a valid way to read 'it'. The title is written poorly; I've found that, in order to reduce ambiguity in referential language, 'it' should generally refer to the most recent noun(or a most recent noun with 'the' in front). Otherwise the legibility of the writing is lost, such as this title. Admittedly, there's not much way to keep this from reading awkwardly.
- user234683 7y agoI've never heard of that rule. Ambiguous pronouns like this are pretty common in English. In fact, figuring out what the ambiguous pronoun refers to is the basis for the Winograd Schema, a challenge for AI especially relevant to translation tasks [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoIt's not a rule, sorry. Let me change my language to be less authoritative.