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by user234683 2516 days ago
I've never heard of that rule. Ambiguous pronouns like this are pretty common in English. In fact, figuring out what the ambiguous pronoun refers to is the basis for the Winograd Schema, a challenge for AI especially relevant to translation tasks [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema

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It's not a rule, sorry. Let me change my language to be less authoritative.