Re: Articles with propper names (was RE: Same name (was ...))

Carlos Eugenio Thompson scripsit:

> Some dialect in Spanish, mainly in the Quechua influenced area: Chile,
> Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Southern Colombia, use the definite article with
> personal names.  All dialects uses article (or posesive pronoun) with
> titles.
English uses an emphatic definite article with a name to refer to an
obvious unique bearer of the name, thus:

        The King of Macedon at that time was Alexander ---
        not *the* Alexander, but his great-grandfather.

"*The* Alexander" would be Alexander the Great, conqueror of Persia.

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