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berekukyesterday at 11:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Same here. Every few years I try to go through https://englishpage.com/articles/index.htm to internalize more rules but it doesn't fully stick, and it's the only part of English that makes me self-conscious.


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nutjob2yesterday at 11:09 PM

In programming terms 'a' is followed by a type name and 'the' is followed by a variable name.