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Pronouns are truly the bane of clear communication.

I set this rule for my team so many times and it's awesome how much harder people have to think, and how much better the team works when people can't write a sentence like "It's not working right do you know if anything changed with it?"



Me: "What's the problem"

Them: "You know, the thing with the thing"




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