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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My boyfriend was born in the USSR (in the Ukraine) and grew up in post-Soviet Ukraine. As he told me, as soon as Ukraine was no longer a Soviet Socialist Republic, other countries dropped the article when referring to it. It never had the article in Russian/Ukrainian because those languages don't have articles.
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My most mundane legal issue ever is whether this - in a Japanese patent is a negative sign (my side) or a hyphen. Today we received an opinion from a translator that the character preceding the - was an article meaning both "a" and "the," and it would be incorrect to have an article before a hyphen. I credit you, and dtb (sniff) for my understanding the opinion.
