Timeline for Why zero article? (plural noun)
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| Sep 15, 2020 at 16:42 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A |
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| Aug 17, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1295374856545067008 | ||
| Aug 17, 2020 at 9:02 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:43 | history | edited | LawrenceC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:43 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 0:19 | comment | added | CoderInNetwork | You kinda answered your own question. It mostly depends on what the "author meant." Based on this context, he was talking about the general concept of "thread" in multithreaded programs, not some specific threads. It would be "the threat" if the author was talking about running a program with say 5 threads and how "the threads" divide the labour between each other. It is a bit subjective and no one would bat an eye if they used either version of the word (with or without "the") here. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 22:25 | comment | added | Cardinal | Obviously, "a" cannot be used since the noun is plural. Since the author does not talk about a specific set of threads, they used the plural form to talk about the threads in the general sense. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 22:24 | comment | added | Weather Vane | "In multithreaded programs", and "a division of labor" are general statements. It's a discussion about execution threads, not about a thread or the thread. That would happen when discussing the behaviour in a specific example when the thread does this or that in various circumstances. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 22:23 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2020 at 22:15 | history | asked | rikki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |