• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    It’s kind of scary that a college professor could misread what I said so badly.

    You wrote they in a situation that has multiple entities attached to the story. Your statement was ambiguous.

    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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      21 minutes ago

      The context clues within that sentence removes any ambiguity. No one with a passable grade school level of reading comprehension was going to think I meant CCs were competing with Public Universities, especially given the title I was responding to had Private Colleges as the primary actor.