Angel decided to use the placeholder “the” to stand for Theodore Hertzsprung Englebert. Why was this a bad placeholder for Angel to use? Explain your answer in detail.

What will be an ideal response?

The temptation to replace the phrase
with the faster-to-type acronym for
now and use find and replace to
expand it later is high. But ‘the’ is a
common word in English, so there
would be many false positives that
would be replaced, wasting much
more time in later editing than was
saved by using the placeholder in the
first place.