Timeline for What is the difference between "work on computer" and "work on the computer"?
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 14:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I can't say exactly why, but I don't think OP's first version is even "possible", syntactically speaking. That's to say I think it's ungrammatical, not just non-idiomatic. You can work on computer science, for example, but you can't dispense with an article if it's just the noun computer. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 10:14 | history | answered | Orbital Aussie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |