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Never hearing the end of it from people who don't understand that other people write from their own perspective by default?
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Exactly!

> It would probably have been safer for the author to explicitly point out that this is true for them specifically

It's ironic but you should have started with "In my opinion", "I think" or something to that effect. Now you never hear the end of it!


I like to think that "probably" covers this well enough, but, yes, you're right.

I do think it covers that, since you're conveying the uncertainty.



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