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Jul 11, 2014 - 5:31 PM
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manderley
(Member)
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Once upon a time---before the computer revolution---these things were very appropriately and completely worked out by librarians, document filers, index listings, etc. Nearly everyone subscribed to the old system and it was a perfectly good and almost infallible solution.
With the advent of the internet, the programmers and code writers---many of whom apparently had spelling and alphabetizing difficulties---instituted new systems which don't make a lot of filing sense.
"The" is just one of these. If you KNOW the title of the film is THE TOWERING INFERNO it all works out fine in this system. If you don't know, you'll likely not be able to find the film unless you look in two places---certainly not the most efficient and speedy system.
"A", "An", "Mister", "Mr.", "Doctor", "Dr", "Mrs.", "Ms", "Missus", and "Mistress" are a few others---along with numbers like "13 Rue Madeleine", "The 39 Steps", "1776", "101 Dalmatians", etc.......a nightmarish path to weave through today.
Just because something is current and modern doesn't necessarily make it functional and improved.
But the process of writing and putting down alphabet symbols to express the complete thought is changing rapidly today and texting and its varying forms make abbreviations the words of the moment, with spelling and coherence often lost along the way.
This all works fine until a texting error, and its interpretation, causes a major disaster.
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I don't organize. Too OCD, for me. However, if I did, I'd drop the "The".
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I drop the "The" in all instances.
It is only to be used when it is part of name like The Who, The The etc
One of the things that drove me crazy about the old FSM index was they didn't drop "The"
so we get pages and pages of film titles starting with "THE"
D'OH!
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For ripped album names I leave it- It's part of the title.
It does annoy my sensibilities, but my OCD says keep it complete.
The CDs themselves are arranged by the release date of the movie, and jumbled within that slot.
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