On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> One says either "Fossil" or "the Fossil SCM". In uniqueness qualifier > "the" is required in the second case because the noun is "SCM" there exists > multiple SCMs, of which "Fossil" is only one. In the first case, you are > referring to the unique entity directly and so the uniqueness qualifier > "the" is not allowed, in English. > That's a great explanation. Thanks to Matt and Scott as well. > We need to get you back to Texas for a few months, Stephan ;-) > i don't miss my drawl! i had one when i came over here but when you're around so many non-native speakers for so long, at some point you learn to stop slurring (my mother used to always complain about that), using colloquialisms/slang, and to find a human-understandable dialect. Wikipedia edit is pending... -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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