>Board game collection sorted alphabetically
Do you place 'The Settlers of Catan' under the Ts, the Ss, or the Cs?
There is only one correct answer.
Not sure if thinly-veiled "do you Catan?" thread
>>47949824
It was the first thing that came to mind.
Only C is correct.
>Lord of the Rings game
Is the 'the' implicit?
I mean, it should be 'The Lord of the Rings' right?
>>47949804
If you want to be "correct", you sort it under S.
If you want to be convenient towards yourself, you sort it under C, because 99% of the time you're going to be thinking of it as "Catan" and not "Settlers of Catan"
>>47949860
It should be LR.
>>47949860
Is it any good?
>>47949804
In the trash where it belongs motherfuckers! BAM!
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>>47950125
Back the fuck off!!
>>47949804
The is an article, so it's ignored. S for Settlers.
>>47949860
It doesn't matter for sorting, since "The" is never used as the first letter in this case.
>>47949804
it's >>47949944
'S' for correctness, 'C' for "where the fuck did I put Catan?"
>>47949860
'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway.
>>47949860
> The Boardgame of J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
It clearly goes under B.
>>47949804
This game was renamed last year, in its 5th edition, to "Catan." C.
When referring to the 1st through 4th editions, "The Settlers of Catan" is the correct title. S.
>>47949860
Known as "Lord of the Rings" in all editions. L.
>>47949944
Really? I've always thought of it as "Settlers" as does everyone I know.
>>47949860
>>47951191
I lied, the newer editions (2010, 2012) are "The Lord of the Rings."
>>47950157
Why does the knight close his eyes, or is he oriental maybe? I'm so confused.
>>47950776
>'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway.
Why do you deceive us?
>>47951191
So if I have all five editions, one of them will stand apart on some other distant shelf? That's not right.
>>47949804
You always ignore any the's in a word, and depending on how you think of it i.e:
"I want to play The Settlers of Catan"
or
"I want to play Catan."
>>47951219
ditto
>>47949804
"The" doesn't count. Put it under S.
>>47951247
The sun is obviously in his eyes, so he's squinting to see.
>>47951276
If you're that serious of a collector, then you are sorting board games by publisher name, then publication date, then finally by game title. Looks a lot nicer that way
>Have board games from parallel dimensions
>Never really know how to sort them
>>47951354
>serious collector
>not even sorting them by box color
>>47949804
Catan, the Settlers of
>>47951328
>"The" doesn't count.
As ESL this confuses the hell out of me.
But then my native puts c after h if it's followed by h, but between b and č otherwise, so who am I to judge...
>>47952911
See, as a native English speaker, this makes sense to me because so many games and titles start with The.
If you counted the The every time when alphabetizing, you'd inevitably have more games grouped in the T section than anywhere else, which goes against the whole point of alphabetizing.
>>47952856
of Catan, The Settlers
>>47953548
In my opinion the point of alphabetizing is not so much having equal distribution for each number but having faster search in ordered set.
>>47949804
Why would you sort them alphabetically? My game club sorts first by duration, minimum number of players, and finally type. So Love Letter, Bannanagrams and other time-filler games are in one section, while Battlestar Galactica and other long games are seperate.
>>47949804
C. Catan, The Settlers of.
t. I alphabetized shit for a living all throughout the 90s.
>>47953647
>Why would you sort them alphabetically?
because it improves your worst case search from n to log n
Dear English,
WHY THE HELL DID YOU INVENT "THE"? I CAN'T IMAGINE A MORE USELESS WORD
The correct answer is to sort it under T, for trash.
>>47949804
i dont put it anywhere because its a shit game
>>47949804
Settlers of Catan, The - S
>>47949860
Lord of the Rings, The - L
>>47953678
Because it allows specification of a particular object without having to specify "but not other examples of similar objects". So, "did you feed the cat" or "could you get the vacuum cleaner out" rather than "did you feed your cat" or "could you get our family vacuum cleaner out". It also reduces cognitive load, as you don't have to find the correct word to use - just stick "the" in front of the object in question.Also, "the" isn't an invention of the English language.
>>47953678
if you think that "the" is bad wait until you see how it translates in italian:
il
lo
la
i
gli
le
>>47954062
Oh, and while I remember: the sheer versatility of "the" makes it one of the most useful words in the English language, not one of the least. Compare a word like, say, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which is used either to specify an extremely rare disease of the lungs or for impressing your friends, and "the" suddenly looks a hell of a lot more useful.
>>47950776
>'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway
You sure about that?
>>47954080
>look at VTNL
>makes FATAL look good
>>47949804
C is for Catan, obviously, what kind of subhuman would put it in any other place?
>>47954062
In my language we have nothing like "the" and we're fine. If you really need to specify which cat you fed you say "that cat".
Though, I agree, "a" is far more useless.
