Dead-End Discussions (was the/Ukraine)

[Francoise Rosset]

One more thing:
Please stop using the example of France as some kind of weapon in this
argument.

France is NOT a country that somehow is cool or confident enough not to
worry about the article in LA France and whether or not it translates.
Maybe we are but that's not the point.

France simply uses articles in front of almost ALL countries and, for good
measure, in front of "parts" as well as "wholes" -- in fact, pretty much in
front of all nouns ...
LA France, LE Bhoutan, LA Colombie, LE Venezuela, LE Cameroun, LE Vietnam,
LA Russie, L'Allemagne, L'Alaska, LA Bourgogne, LA côte ouest as well as LE
passeport and LA musique.

The presence of an article in "La France" has no significance whatsoever.
NOT the case when the word "the" is used in front of the word "Ukraine" and
not in front of the word "Russia."

-FR


-- 
Françoise Rosset
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Wheaton College, Norton MA 02766
*Spring 2014*: Resident Director of Wheaton-in-Bhutan program, Thimphu,
Bhutan
phone # in Bhutan: +975 1750 0593
frosset at wheatonma.edu
frosset at rtc.bt

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