why is trends adding "the" before "falcon heavy"
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ah because some silly journokin have done it i suppose yeah hi it's a project designator, it works like any other abstract proper noun. sometimes a THE can go there but it's not *part* of the noun k
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JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」 🏴☠️ Retweeted Jeff Bezos
ie this is fine. if you can't into parse trees, the "the" attaches to "launch"https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/960521086298238976 …
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JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」 🏴☠️ Retweeted Brian Cox
this is also correct as "the [X]" can be thought of as meaning "this specific [X]", even though yes linguists frown at English's ambiguity here (between "that specific [X]" and "the one and only [X]")https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/960770957462986752 …
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Brian CoxVerified account @ProfBrianCoxIf all this works and all three pieces of the Falcon Heavy return to base it will be the coolest thing - and a significant step on the road to creating a spacefaring civilisation. Even if it doesn’t work this time we’ll learn a great deal. Good luck@SpaceX ! https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/status/960759671324860416 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」 🏴☠️ Retweeted National Geographic
the "the" here is extraneoushttps://twitter.com/NatGeo/status/960668127163047941 …
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JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」 🏴☠️ Retweeted Jamie Jackson
but this one is actually wrong, bc of that English "the" oddity i mentioned two tweets up. this reads as "the (one and only) Falcon Heavy"https://twitter.com/JJCJackson/status/960843166034350080 …
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tldr trends and tweeps pls stop "the"-ing the project designator "Falcon Heavy" into a cliched 90s punkrock band, linguistic nails on a chalkboard, thx
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