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Re:Why is zero plural? (2024) by thaumasiotes on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:19AM (#42794396)
> 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.

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Re:Why is zero plural? (2024) by RiverCrochet on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:51PM (#42796185)
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.

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