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This is normal. E.g. cars are the same way. It's not "The Mustang" it is "Mustang".
by rootusrootus 5y ago
This is normal. E.g. cars are the same way. It's not "The Mustang" it is "Mustang".
- Infernal 5y agoIt is? “The Mustang has a new engine this year” “I’m going to take the Mustang today” - those sentences sound very strange without “the”. Yet Apple does this consistently, referring to each product as a singular proper name (which sounds weird because, like cars, there are millions of them with many variations over the years all with the same name).
- toxik 5y ago”We have redesigned the Volvo XC60” is absolutely a normal way to talk. You are specifying a particular model from a line of models. “Volvos are some of the safest cars” is the way I would expect one to talk about Volvo’s cars in general. Companies don’t want their products to become generic names, that’s why they make these nonsense rules.
- NobodyNada 5y agoHuh? I’ve never heard anyone refer to a car model without an article. If you purchased a Mustang you’d say “I got a Mustang”, not “I got Mustang.” Even when talking about the model in general rather than a specific car, it’s “The Mustang gets 30 MPG”, not “Mustang gets 30 MPG.” (I’m from the PNW, in case it’s a regional thing.)