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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP are you a foreigner? I feel like only non native speakers have these arguments. Articles just sound better.

I remember there was some island in sociology class that we learned about. They brought two languages together and didn't have grammar rules. By the next generation, grammar had developed. [/quote]
Yes, I am from another country. I am not disrupting that article just sounds better. I am saying I don't see any need for them. Grammar develops all the time. Grammatical gender is used in many languages, for example. Does that make English still a simple, not yet developed language compared to other languages with more complicated rules? Articles in English do not even determine gender.
I really think that the use of articles in English is superficial, a remnant of some French/German structures, and absolutely irrelevant in understanding the meaning.[/quote]

Your English is functional, but you miss a lot of nuance and higher level meaning.  You sound so foolish and uninformed, bleating repeatedly over people who have mastered English at a level you cannot and will not, that you know best.  Just shut up and accept that you don't know as much as you thought.[/quote]

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