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the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything
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I kinda of disagree with this as I always felt it refers to Time or the event frame of time
It really becomes time that it's been made clear about that! It's unbelievable that it took so long for someone to call out that it's the time the It is referring to!
(Now I wait for some nerd to clear up each reference point because I only wrote that because I had the first two parte in my head when I reset your reply!)
That somehow feels right. I still kind of want some phrase that you could substitute for it though. The most correct feeling thing I could think of are seasons as in 'the summer rains'. But from a logical standpoint a concept that is defined by humans producing something material doesn't really make sense since a concept isn't material.