It means the same no matter if you play chess or not. It denotes something.
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Nov 29, 2015
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These questions are answered in a dictionary. Are you suffering from a concussion or "something"?
you do realize your sentence has no meaning
Nov 29, 2015
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I can explain it more. Did you hit your head on "something"? Did you fall down recently?
Depends on what your definition of is is.
i hit my head on the answer, and i fell down with a cold
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Depends on what your definition of is is.
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YOU SEE, THE ANSWER IS NOT SO SIMPLE
"the" doesnt mean anything, it changes the meaning of another word. In some languages "the" is built into the word as a suffix. In Danish for instance "the dog" is hundEN" with EN=the.
Like the s in "dogS" is in English plural. its random if you say "s dog" or "dogs". The s doesnt mean anything in itself, it changes the meaning of the word you stick it to.
Meaning the way English developed, some guys in the past decided it was nice to put the indefinite plural s into the word, and keep the singular determination "the" as a seperate word you out in front of the word it modified. Other languages have it otherwise.
I think they are called "functionals" those things like the and s?
Raspberry_Yoghurt wrote:
"the" doesnt mean anything, it changes the meaning of another word. In some languages "the" is built into the word as a suffix. In Danish for instance "the dog" is hundEN" with EN=the.
Like the s in "dogS" is in English plural. its random if you say "s dog" or "dogs". The s doesnt mean anything in itself, it changes the meaning of the word you stick it to.
Interesting. so you would say "the" has no meaning in itself..So if that were the only word in existence there'd be no meaning?
bjornb06 wrote:
Raspberry_Yoghurt wrote:
"the" doesnt mean anything, it changes the meaning of another word. In some languages "the" is built into the word as a suffix. In Danish for instance "the dog" is hundEN" with EN=the.
Like the s in "dogS" is in English plural. its random if you say "s dog" or "dogs". The s doesnt mean anything in itself, it changes the meaning of the word you stick it to.
Interesting. so you would say "the" has no meaning in itself..So if that were the only word in existence there'd be no meaning?
Haha yeah i guess so.
" doesnt mean anything in itself either, just standing alone. But if you do like this and uses two of them: Wittgenstein is "clever", then it creates meaning.
What does the word "the" mean to you as a chess player