On Friday 05 Jan 2007 22:55, Darren Albers wrote: > I > think adding the is correct,
Naturally, I disagree. > would you say the people in car or would > you say the people in the car? Unfortunately, the english language isn't that consistent. A car is an object, Usenet isn't (that probably isn't the technically correct reason, but I'm no professor of english). Let me put it this way, would you say: "people in Birmingham" or "people in the Birmingham". To me, the latter would only make sense if there's a river called the Birmingham river and you were referring to them, rather than people in the city of Birmingham. -- Mike _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
