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> I'm no grammar Nazi but Our author seems to consistently make the same mistake: there's a distinct lack of articles in the writing. Sprinkle some in, and thi
by deathanatos 12y ago
> I'm no grammar Nazi but
Our author seems to consistently make the same mistake: there's a distinct lack of articles in the writing. Sprinkle some in, and things start to make sense:
> [A] Linux distribution is [a] well-tested collection of packages
> we would like to have [an] internal mirror of [a] package repository
> some packages are missing in [the] official distribution
> we would like to own [a] package repository, that is to have [a] package repository
> There are many tools to create [a] mirror of [the] Debian package repositories
… and so on. At any rate, this consistency suggests (to me, at least) that he's probably not a native English speaker; in fact, the writer is almost certainly Russian. There's a link to a sponsor, which has a Russian phone number, and if you click around enough, you can find his CV quite easily.
Not everyone on the Internet speaks English, however, enough people do that I could easily see it being beneficial to put your content in English. Who knows?
- eLobato 12y agoFor some reason, native speakers of Slavic languages who learn English as a second language, often omit some prepositions in English. It's 100% understandable, but I'm really curious what's the actual reason why this happens.
- heinz 12y agoDon't you mean articles instead of prepositions? If so, take into consideration that most of all Slavic languages don't feature articles at all.
- szabba 12y agoIt probably has something to do with out languages having more grammatical cases than English (which, arguably, has two, though it's possible to only use one).
- groovy2shoes 12y agoNot sure about prepositions, but the articles are often omitted because most Slavic languages don't have articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28grammar%29#Variation_among_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28grammar%29#Variation...
- ithinkso 12y agoFunny thing is, when we(native speakers of Slavic languages) read such english text with omitted articles we do understand it as intended and often we do not even realize that it's missing something.