> It's tautological "the" It's the (sorry) obligatory "the", because "the shower" has been lexicalized. This is very intimate, because the situation in which o

> It's tautological "the" It's the (sorry) obligatory "the", because "the shower" has been lexicalized. This is very intimate, because the situation in which one talks about the shower, especially when still learning the language, will virtually always be at home with family. But enough talk. I will go to bed ... to bed myself. First I will go to the shower, an' shower, though. It's overall very unlikely I will have an in-shower phone call. The given explanation is not satisfying. There's a difference between rhetorics and grammar. The common denominator is syntax (phonology, too, to a degree) but it differs between vocal and written speech. The semantics are the same, but you can take a look at the wiktionary page of [a] to get an idea of how diverse that is. [a] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a