There are only exemptions to the supposed rule that was just now made up…
But heeeey, you can still like I dunno, prove your little statement! After all as the maker of the positive statement the burden of proof only lies on you and your fellow spouters of nonsense!
And before you can reply with something obnoxious about frequency not being the same as importance… yes, obviously. In this context we are talking about the importance of a word to a language. Said differently, how necessary or critical is a word within a language. No one is arguing that “a”, “an”, or “or” are important concepts, but they are important to my ability to convey meaning. Yes, “existence” is more important than “or”, but if you removed both of those words from my vocabulary, it would be the missing “or” that would make communication more difficult overall.
Its obnoxious to call out that that statistical regularity (wowsies, you spent hours looking for that?) have nothing to do with the semi-random statements you make? Maybe you shouldn’t make claims you yourself find issues with?
Your little theory bleeds from every imaginable surface… Why are the indefinite articles of ‘a’ and ‘an’ more important that that of the definitive? At that why is ‘a’ more important than ‘an’ if they serve the very same purpose? Is there even a singular example where your little theory you call a rule works?
There are only exemptions to the supposed rule that was just now made up…
But heeeey, you can still like I dunno, prove your little statement! After all as the maker of the positive statement the burden of proof only lies on you and your fellow spouters of nonsense!
You sound absolutely insufferable. I really hope you are just rage baiting; otherwise I feel really sad for you.
Even though I highly doubt you have any actual interest in the topic beyond antagonizing others in this thread, here is more information on Zipf’s law of abbreviation.
And before you can reply with something obnoxious about frequency not being the same as importance… yes, obviously. In this context we are talking about the importance of a word to a language. Said differently, how necessary or critical is a word within a language. No one is arguing that “a”, “an”, or “or” are important concepts, but they are important to my ability to convey meaning. Yes, “existence” is more important than “or”, but if you removed both of those words from my vocabulary, it would be the missing “or” that would make communication more difficult overall.
Its obnoxious to call out that that statistical regularity (wowsies, you spent hours looking for that?) have nothing to do with the semi-random statements you make? Maybe you shouldn’t make claims you yourself find issues with?
Your little theory bleeds from every imaginable surface… Why are the indefinite articles of ‘a’ and ‘an’ more important that that of the definitive? At that why is ‘a’ more important than ‘an’ if they serve the very same purpose? Is there even a singular example where your little theory you call a rule works?