Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Joe wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 6:16 am, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>>In my opinion, the "definite article" in English should be renamed "the
>>specific article", since it can (usually) only be used when referring to
>>a specific entity.
>
> I disagree.  I think that definite and specific are synonyms in this case.  I
> think the article in the romance langs shoudl be renamed.
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Tristan.

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