[lit-ideas] Re: Overused Words: "The", "A"
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:32:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I didn't know the Romans didn't have articles. That's interesting given that
Romance languages have them. Many languages don't have a or the. I think it
adds a bit of precision, but languages without them do fine by using context.
American Sign Language, for example, doesn't have articles as far as I know.
Andy Amago
-----Original Message-----
From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
Sent: Dec 18, 2004 7:59 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Overused Words: "The", "A"
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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