[lit-ideas] Re: Overused Words: "The", "A"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:59:37 EST
In a message dated 12/16/2004 9:14:55 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I kind of like smoking gun myself. People just like to find things to
complain about.
_http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php_
(http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php)
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Interestingly, a study in the University of California at San Diego also
showed that the most overused words in English was "the", followed by "a". This
is amazing, if you think that the Romans (as they spoke Latin) never had the
need to use the article, either definite or indefinite. I wonder if it is _so_
necessary that you have to _overuse_ those two words?
(Surely Geary can write a Sunday poem without 'the' and a Sunday poem
without 'a')
Cheers,
JL
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