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Re:Patterns in Confusing Explanations by Niksko on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:18AM (#28256373)
Not only do you have the problem of different 'it's referring to different things, I think there's also an element of adding unnecessary cognitive load at a time where cognitive load is already high. Even if there's only one pronoun and one possible thing that the pronoun could refer to, your brain still needs to do the cognitive lookbehind to interpret the sentence.
Re:Patterns in Confusing Explanations by wasyl on Saturday August 21, 2021 @01:30PM (#28258831)
Reducing this cognitive load also helps _me_ follow the explanation as I go!