[lit-ideas] Re: Overused Words: "The", "A"
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:01:58 -0800
So what did the Romans overuse?
And, by the way, is it possible to write someone's name and use only Roman
numerals?
yrs,
andreas
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Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:59 AM
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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