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Today i went to the shore.
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2017-06-27 at 1:55 PM UTCIt was kind of cold. But i do love the ocean.
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2017-06-27 at 1:58 PM UTC(you)
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2017-06-27 at 2:16 PM UTCI'm not even sure if shores are fundamental anymore...
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2017-06-27 at 2:17 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-06-27 at 2:24 PM UTCBut are they objectively fundamental? That is the question.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-06-27 at 2:36 PM UTCI live near the shore. which is fucking awesome this time of year.
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2017-06-27 at 5:21 PM UTCWhy do people say 'the' when talking about something that there are a lot of?
Why isn't it 'I went to a store,' or 'I went to a shore.'?
That's an English rule I don't fully understand.
Bonus points if you can explain the grammar to me without looking it up like a cringe pot. I'll know if you're speaking from the heart, belie' dat. -
2017-06-27 at 5:25 PM UTCBecause when they say, "the", in reference to a shore, they are referring to a specific shore. ie: a shore among shores. If they refer to "a" shore, that could be any old run of the mill shore from anywhere.
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2017-06-27 at 5:31 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Because when they say, "the", in reference to a shore, they are referring to a specific shore. ie: a shore among shores. If they refer to "a" shore, that could be any old run of the mill shore from anywhere.
You're always referring to a specific shore though, even if you say 'a shore.'
I can see saying 'the shore' if you lived right next to one, and the person you were talking to was aware of that. In this case, people are saying 'the shore' when there isn't enough evidence for any of us to know which 'the shore' they're talking about. We can make educated guesses based on their known locations but 'the' should be reserved for proper nouns, methinks. -
2017-06-27 at 5:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ You're always referring to a specific shore though, even if you say 'a shore.'
I can see saying 'the shore' if you lived right next to one, and the person you were talking to was aware of that. In this case, people are saying 'the shore' when there isn't enough evidence for any of us to know which 'the shore' they're talking about. We can make educated guesses based on their known locations but 'the' should be reserved for proper nouns, methinks.
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2017-06-27 at 5:51 PM UTC
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2017-06-27 at 7:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ You're always referring to a specific shore though, even if you say 'a shore.'
Yes but 'a shore' occupies no particular place. It is our description of the concept of a shore. When we say 'I went to the shore' we are not concerned with relaying something about the concept of a shore, we are concerned with relaying the fact that we went to a physical point in space. We could say 'I went somewhere' but 'the shore' is more descriptive. -
2017-06-27 at 7:14 PM UTCNice uninteresting pointless thread
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2017-06-27 at 7:16 PM UTC
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2017-06-27 at 7:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ You're always referring to a specific shore though, even if you say 'a shore.'
I can see saying 'the shore' if you lived right next to one, and the person you were talking to was aware of that. In this case, people are saying 'the shore' when there isn't enough evidence for any of us to know which 'the shore' they're talking about. We can make educated guesses based on their known locations but 'the' should be reserved for proper nouns, methinks.
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It's probably a relic from when we still lived in tribes and didn't have the internet and shit. When bronze age nigger A said to bronze age nigger B: "I went to the mountain" Everyone probably knew he meant the mountain near the village. In that sense it's kind of implied that you went to the thing closest to you. be it the shore, the store or the whore. -
2017-06-27 at 7:19 PM UTC
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2017-06-27 at 7:22 PM UTCthey got a beer for that
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2017-06-29 at 10:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Why do people say 'the' when talking about something that there are a lot of?
Why isn't it 'I went to a store,' or 'I went to a shore.'?
That's an English rule I don't fully understand.
Bonus points if you can explain the grammar to me without looking it up like a cringe pot. I'll know if you're speaking from the heart, belie' dat.
when you say you go to ''a shore'', your kinda expected to go on and elaborate more about the said shore .... like with followup descriptions ....
but when you say ''the shore'', people understand that you mean to just tell them you went to a place with the properties/quality/likeness of a shore and that's that. -
2017-06-29 at 10:15 PM UTCYou didn't go anywhere and you know it, you snobby two faced banshee.
