Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by klausa on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:40AM
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Literally the first three words of the announcement that this submission is about are "Motorola, a Lenovo Company".
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by doodlebugging on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:38AM
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That is four words.
Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by ThePowerOfFuet on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:44AM
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Come on.
Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by klausa on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:36PM
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I was gonna be a smartass about how in my native language it would count as three words; but then I went and consulted Wikipedia and it was so dense with linguistics jargon I realized I actually have no idea what a "word" is.
But the consensus seems to be that in English that would indeed count as four words ;P
Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
by doodlebugging on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:33AM
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I initially read your comment and decided that English may not be your first language and it made me wonder how the "a" in the phrase is treated in your language since that is the only likely part of the four words that would not be considered a word by itself.
In grade school English we are taught that 'a' and 'I' are separate words and AFAIK they are the only one-letter words in English with the possible exception of 'O' which is sometimes used in an older English context.
Does your native language bind the 'a' through the adjective "Lenovo" to the noun "company" as a modifier signifying a singular instance? I guess I wonder why it would not be considered to be a word by itself since in English it is commonly used along with 'an' to identify or specify a single item.
Thanks for responding.