People understand the difference between the Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy. But, I'll bet most don't know the marines is technically part of the Navy. The average user simply does not understand the difference between virus, worm, trojan. etc. I know power users that think the Internet is the browser.


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>That's not what I got accustomed to while in the US. People (aka the language users) want you to be specific - whenever I mentioned the army, someone would ask about navy, airforce and marines. Must be it's because of a lack of a common noun for armed forces. "The military" is not a noun, just like "musical" isn't, it's an adjective (which is also an adjective :). There should be a default but omitted noun, just like we say Češka, Poljska and Turska for Czech, Poland and Turkey - all of them adjectives, but with an assumed noun (country) to them. Somehow I expect "the military" to be a plural, just like "the poor".