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From: Andre@shappski.demon.co.uk (Andre Shapps)
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Subject: Re: "I'm going to the home"?
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In article: <azog.20.001C1719@gti.gti.net>  azog@gti.gti.net writes:
> Do all languages include definite (and indefinite) articles?

Nope. See the thread `The logic of "and" and "but"' if you can, but Russian and 
Japanese don't for a start, the general feeling being that languages without 
articles indicate specificity or nonspecificity in other ways where necessary.
-- 
Andre Shapps

