alt Hacker News> English requires the use of an article with singular nouns, because the question of "which X" is important.
Well, that obviously can't be true, or other languages would have the same requirement.
> English requires the use of an article with singular nouns, because the question of "which X" is important.
Well, that obviously can't be true, or other languages would have the same requirement.
I guess I should have made that say "important to English."
Languages definitely impose "models" for various things and those are certainly different amongst each language.