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Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by yongjik on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:23PM (#13453047)
> Point in case, the word "violence" needs the definite article, because violence is an abstract concept (which the parent missed).

No, searching for "inciting violence"/"fearing violence" in Google gives thousands of hits. (Also in Google Books, if you want to claim all these websites are wrong.)

It is perfectly OK to use "violence" without an article.

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Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by posterboy on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:26AM (#13455282)
OK, I'm not a native speaker and admittedly didn't reaffirm my claim before posting. Anywho, the headline and newspaper speak is not exactly the propper grammer I am talking about, right?

Wouldn't omitting the the in my sentence mean, they feared violence in general? Sure, broad contracts are welcome, but then there couldn't be a specific answer to who they are. I guess that's in agreement with what you said.

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