Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Content Designer: is this the right kind of cup? Is the cup in the right place? Is what’s filling the cup best for the audience at this particular time?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Linguist: OK what about if you were describing the cup yesterday? Would the sentence change at all? What if you heard this secondhand from someone versus you saw it for yourself?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Content Designer: is this the right kind of cup? Is the cup in the right place? Is what’s filling the cup best for the audience at this particular time?