Funny how we instinctively decide what needs a definite article without clear reasoning. The Internet. The blockchain. The economy.
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Best way to unpack the schema is to try to explain it to a native speaker of a language without articles, like Russian. (It's hard!)
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Even stranger is when it happens with proper names: what's going on with The Gambia, for example?
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this doesn't seem like magic to me. I have clear rules, and sometimes reason about it. Typically an easy choice, like singular / plural
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