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"all of them"
"them all"
We can adapt.
Yep agreed, the point was that people will tend towards the shorter "them" first, which may cause some initial confusion followed shortly with a "oh I meant them (singular)/ all of them". Again thats really the only real " issue if you can call it that even to using the singular "they"