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The THE thread

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Was expecting a Matt Johnson thread.

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Not quite as it sounds. They only have rights to the word in specific applications - probably the school name.

There are 6,649,916 trademarks with the word "THE" in them, per uspto.gov.
 
The world needs to dilute THE use of that word so that THE OSU can't litigate all of the presumed trademark violations.

But then they say it with a long e at the end so it is different from most of the the's I use. there I got in a musical reference

Not a fan of trademarking common word(ings) by any entities. It is part of language and we ain't gonna avoid it to keep safe. Like the Monster trademark. Shoulda only been granted for audio/ac power uses and that mini-golf company should never have been bothered by Lee and his lawyers.
 
Blue Shadow said:
But then they say it with a long e at the end so it is different from most of the the's I use.
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Normal pronunciation usually uses a thee sound when the following word begins with a vowel. A thuh sound is used when the following word begins with a consonant.
 
Osibisa said:
The THE (band)?
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They are gonna have to sue them twice.

highvoltage_ said:
Normal pronunciation usually uses a thee sound when the following word begins with a vowel. A thuh sound is used when the following word begins with a consonant.
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Yes. But we don't hold to that all the time. Not Thee university of... but usually thuh university of. But it is odd that such common words, usually more than one can be trademarked.
 
highvoltage_ said:
Normal pronunciation usually uses a thee sound when the following word begins with a vowel. A thuh sound is used when the following word begins with a consonant.
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I figure THEy didn't go with THEE because THEy didn't want to have to deal with potential separation of church and state university issues ...

PS - time for Pitt to sue OSU (TOSU?) for the dot the I thing - they did it first, right? ;-}
 
Maybe we need to just drop this article. Doesn't really do much anyways other to introduce a noun.

Call it..."Functional English"!


Just stirring the pot. :D


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Always wondered what Miami University in Ohio thought of this. They are a public university, after all. So it's not like there is only one Ohio university. The fact that they guy that probably SHOULD have been coaching at THE University of Nebraska was their football coach does not enter into this. :p
 
Pio1980 said:
What is this in French?
LE LE? LA LA? IL IL?
I like the third option as it sounds the most absurd.
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Masculine "L" and the institution's title has TWO articles, i.e., l'université de l'état de l'ohio ... should they insist on including the word "state".

Variant: l'université de l'Ohio ... still TWO masculine definite articles ("L").
 
Spitfirejoe said:
Always wondered what Miami University in Ohio thought of this. They are a public university, after all. So it's not like there is only one Ohio university. The fact that they guy that probably SHOULD have been coaching at THE University of Nebraska was their football coach does not enter into this. :p
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Usually expressed as Miami University of Ohio or, for short, Miami of Ohio. My guess is that the folks at Oxford (OH) are busy pondering other 'tings...
 
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