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Remove “the” from the weak list #6

Closed matze closed 10 years ago

matze commented 10 years ago

Given that it is the only definite article the English language has, I find it an odd choice to see that on the weak list. In the referenced material, “the” is also not listed as a weak word.

reedes commented 10 years ago

The word lists would definitely benefit from better documentation. I'll look to do that.

As far as 'the' goes, I expect that it is considered weak/vague when a more specific word can be used. For example:

"Have you seen the car keys?" vs "Have you seen my car keys?"

But I'll remove it if I can't properly document. Thanks for the feedback.

reedes commented 10 years ago

Please take a look at my 'july-beta' branch. It contains accumulated changes over the past few months to several of the dictionaries.

I wasn't able to find my reference for 'the', so pulled it for now.

matze commented 10 years ago

Thanks, for listing these references, that's great for further reading! Because I use NeoBundle to manage Vim packages, the july-branch is totally fine with me.

reedes commented 10 years ago

Great. Be warned that in several days I'll be deleting july-beta after merging it into master.

reedes commented 10 years ago

Merged. Closing.