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I love that you pointed this out (oops, this = the tendency to unclearly define or refer to pronouns). One of the questions I ask the most in trying to clarify
by jimkleiber 5y ago
I love that you pointed this out (oops, this = the tendency to unclearly define or refer to pronouns). One of the questions I ask the most in trying to clarify what someone said is "what do you mean by 'it'?"
I find this happens a lot also with personal pronouns: you, we, she/he/they, etc. A buddy got angry once and said to me "Why do you always do that?!" And I was really confused. I said, "I'm really confused, why do I always do what?" And he said "ohhh, I didn't mean you, I actually meant me and how I always forget to do things."
Double pronoun confusion