Re: Manifesto Project Database

Posted by Robert Holmes-3 on Dec 12, 2013; 11:21pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Manifesto-Project-Database-tp7584514p7584516.html

Careful with that "the", it's got political connotations. The BBC has a good description of the issue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233844 

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM, glen <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 12/12/2013 10:55 AM, glen wrote:
> ... in the Ukraine is ...

I don't know where I picked that up... At first, I thought it was
because we say "the US".  But that can't be it, since I don't say "the
China" or "the Kansas".  I suspect it's going to be as difficult to
train that out of me as it is to try to use "data are".

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⇒⇐ glen

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