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the confusion. If I say "It was a complete rowt", how can you tell if I am referring to my new mail delivery job or the ousting of, say, hunters from my (posted) property by me with my little old frying pan?
Ya know? If we know enough of the context to know what the antecedent of [i]t is we'd parboly have no trouble knowing what you meant. Not to mention that the two phrases, at least in my ideolect, sound different.
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