How do you refer to the internet in your language? Do you use an article or not? Do you write it with a capital letter?
It's a word I always mess up in a new language. Even though it's such a simple word, using it in a natural and native way isn't always obvious.
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It's a word I always mess up in a new language. Even though it's such a simple word, using it in a natural and native way isn't always obvious.
#langsky
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Checked the dictionary and both masculine and feminine are accepted: "¡Por una Internet más libre!"
SO: it's complicated... but generally in technical / academic circles is proper noun (capitalized), but normally it is not
You can say "internettet" when refering to the concept, but almost everyone use the shortened version and say "nettet"
- "internet" without an article and with a lowercase letter when you want to say you looked something up on the internet for example
- "het internet" with an article when you're referring to the concept
インターネット intānetto
ネット netto
Online news is, for instance
ネットニュース nettonyūsu
- ON the i-net/web > IN, by analogy w/an enclosed space
- post ON/link TO a website/platform > ON/ONTO, by analogy w/a ceiling-less space
- "I bought it on/off Alibaba, I called her on Skype"
> "through" (as in "via")
das Internet
het internet
el internet
the internet
We don't even use Internet in this context.