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6 months agoRn, I’m just on kbin.earth (another Kbin instance that’s much more stable than kbin.social rn). Working great for me.
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Rn, I’m just on kbin.earth (another Kbin instance that’s much more stable than kbin.social rn). Working great for me.
I’m not a linguist, but here’s my guess.
Take these sentences where a similar thing happens.
In these cases, the noun isn’t actually that important, more than it is what you’re doing with the noun. These nouns represent the general act of doing something, and I guess since that action is a singular specific thing, we use “the”.
This applies to “Look in the mirror.” The actual mirror doesn’t really matter much. The focus is on the general act of looking at your clear reflection.