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A small practice for the ambiguous pronoun

A practical exercise: Name the file that needs to change.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Words that carry their weight

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A sentence refers to two files and then says to change it.
  2. Name the file that needs to change.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

What would you keep if this were an experiment rather than a permanent rule?