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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of all the things to complain about the English language, you pick.........articles?

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Also, other things have some order. Have, have been, have had been...whatever.
There is some need for that madness, but articles? I am not thinking about it maliciously, I was on a long drive and such random analysis popped in my brain. And I thought that the dcum grammar police would be great at analyzing this issue.[/quote]

Prepositions are hard in English. Which ones to use and when to use them are a lot more complicated than figuring out articles. Articles are one of the easiest things to learn in English, compared to a language like German.

We have incredibly specific verb tenses when it comes to time, including helping verbs. This is much more complicated in English than other languages.

Our pronunciation and spelling are complicated and violate rules 1/3 of the time.

I appreciate the precision that articles provide. [/quote]
Examples of this precision?[/quote]

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