Re: word poll #2: articles

In my case the question is easy to answer: Hattic has no article.
Which means, to put it bluntly, that if you leave the article in the examples
out, then you have a nice frame for Hattic.

There are only two exceptions: TB and TH.

> TB. hypothetical instance of (introduced by AB).
> -I want a girlfriend. The girl has to be cute.
There are two ways of saying this in Hattic: either by substituting "The girl"
by a personal pronoun, "She", or by using a demonstrative pronoun instead of
the article.

> TH. the one considered the best, most fashionable (usually emphasized)
> -That is *the* restaurant in town.
This can be achieved only by describing it: "The best", "The main", etc.
A demonstrative pronoun might be an alternative, but this would rather be
understood as a reference to a certain restaurant mentioned earlier.
But since restaurants are rare in the Hattic Republic, that should not be a
problem. :))) The capital Bazor-Hel has only one restaurant, that is extremely
expensive and used almost exclusively by the mafia.

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