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I’ve come to see time-related words as potentially dangerous to use in writing, because they have ambiguities that are difficult to parse. I didn’t notice this until I started to work with many people for whom English is a second language. These people taught me that phrases I take for granted can be very confusing and illogical.

Here’s an example: "I avoid using these words, as they are confusing."

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