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>PS Why do Russians speaking English often miss out "the" or "a"? Is it because there is no "article" in the Russian. I see it sometimes in your messages and Sergey's, and hear it on the TV. The thing is that you guys know there IS "a" and "the", as you use them sometimes. As you may have seen, I'm very interested in languages and etymology.

Terry,

There isn't "article" in the Russian and I don't get why it's in the English. In Russian we would use "this table" or "that table" if we've to point to particulal "table". BTW, "IS" (present) was dropped from Russian language a vary long time ago also.