Re: Front page of lua.org

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 2/12/2012 11:15 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Patrick Donnelly writes:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Strictly speaking, Lua has won *a* FrontLine 2011 award, not *the*
> > > FrontLine 2011 award.
> > >
> > > Blowing your own trumpet is cool, but don't split the note!
> >
> > Considering there's only one qualifying category for Lua and that
> > there is only one award given per year for that category, it seems to
> > me the article adjective "the" is correct.
>
> Yup.
>
> Even generally, it's correct to use "the" in such a case because it
> refers to the award as a singular entity (i.e., it's not a generic
> term, and there are not multiple parties giving awards with the same
> name!), even if multiple instances of that reward are awarded. One
> typically says, for instance, that a solder "received the purple
> heart" even if many other soldiers did as well.

I think it will be better if it's rewritten without the 'the', 
removing the ambiguity. The second 'the' is incorrect, as is the 
title of the mag. How about:

    Lua wins Game Developer Magazine's Front Line Awards 2011
    in the Programming Tool category.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia