Tuesday, August 21, 2007

the the the the

I’ve noticed a trend among the people I’ve recently had contact with. Hey, hey, not that kind of contact. These people have a tendency to use ‘the’ in almost all their sentences. Here I am, editing an assignment, and I can’t tell you how many ‘the-s’ that I’ve already come across. Right now I have the headache and I’m not sure the mind of mine can last any the longer. Look. That sentence sounded fake, I know. I just can't do it like them. And I can’t copy and paste it here because it’s supposed to be confidential. It is, if I wanna survive another 2 years around them unharmed. Haha. Nah, it’s not that serious. I just told joyfulchicken that I’m a nice person, so I’m going to prove it by stopping here. You guys are all the nice people and I will stop talking about the the-s in your language and the headache you’re giving me. I still suck at it.

6 comments:

CY said...

Your examples very the wrong lah... xD

joyfulchicken said...

"Only the two things are the infinite: the universe and the human stupidity; and I'm not the sure about the former."

-- The Albert Einstein

Petras Ražanskas said...

Well, you can't do anything about the fact that the English grammar is so evil and you have to use the definite article so often :-) The worse part of it is the more you try to understand the actual rules behind the usage, the more you get confused :-)

runawaycat said...

CY - Why don't you give me one that is not the wrong then? See, I can't do it.

JC - Einstein didn't say exactly that did he? No...

Carney - There's nothing wrong with your usage. Even if 'the' appears like 8 times in your sentence, it still sounds correct. Well, it is. You just have to see what I was talking about.

Petras Ražanskas said...

Show me, I won't tell anyone!

runawaycat said...

But I've already edited it. I'll see if I can find any :)