Wordie: The: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:28:18 +0000

Chained_bear, you're making my left eye twitch.

Comment by chained_bear, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:35:04 +0000

Really? It used to drive me crazy too. Now I think it's teh alsome.

Comment by seanahan, 11 months ago

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:05:39 +0000

I mean, the is so underused in the English language, we need to come with more uses for it. Now, teh, that word drives me crazy.

The adverbial [the].

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:05:45 +0000

The *other* usage of 'the' is as 'the adverbial the' (or at any rate that's what Fowler calls it: it modifies adjectives), as in 'the more the merrier': i.e. 'by so much more numerous, by that much merrier'.

The gratuitous [the].

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:44:26 +0000

As in: "the google, "checking the email", "going to the Safeway store", etc.

I'm not proud of this.