New Symbol Proposed For 'the'

Yeah well, all the Argies, I have met, refer to their homeland as "The Argentine".........

It's a cultural thing....why mess with it?

Real Yukoners call the Yukon, The Yukon. 'The' is definitive, meaning the only one, 'a' is indefinite. A place, person, or thing, not preceded by an article is a Proper noun and is assumed to be unique - thus capitalized and not preceded by an article. The "the" in 'the Ukraine' or in 'the Yukon' is a reference to a mindset of the inhabitants of a place as well as to the geographical place, itself.

I use @ (at) all the time now and the crossed swords symbol for battle saved me lots of time in history class - I would use the 'th'. I like shorthand.

well in Yukon Territory there are NDP mpps who go to a bar every friday evening and stand in a red square that is painted on the floor and chear the worst of communist governments that killed hundreds of millions of people that make the NAZI's seem like amateurs -- Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia. Is this right?

Communist / left wing regime kill more people that diasgarree with them -- is this were we are going with the hatred of Rob Ford?

The hatred in the mass media in the Toronto Red Star & CBC & CTV/Globe & Mail seems to reflect that hatred.

Where are we going in this society?

I want to send him a new symbol for "useless a**hole".

Would a picture of Obama do the job?

"the" has become too difficult to spell

That would explain all the "teh"s I see around the innertubes.

As someone who was raised in "The" Yukon and lived all over the territory, I can attest to what you say. It was always "The" Yukon and I don't remember anyone ever questioning that.

The Yukon has been repopulated, this happened when the price of metals tanked in the mid 1980's and mines closed resulting in unemployment; instead of going on the dole, most real Yukoners moved south for employment. During this depressing time, the gument worker ilk and the welfare ilk elected a Dipper territorial gument. The Dippers went whole hog with 'new' Federal $ transfers to 'fundamentally change' the Yukon. Greenies and southern Dipper/Liberano/Blocista gument rejects were shipped up here , bag and baggage, on the Alberta/Ontario dime. The Public Service got union bonus's for gument toadys and gument workers; gument took over private enterprise and dumbed down the services (snow removal, building etc), the new union ground the Whitepass train into bankruptcy with the help of greenies who shut down the ore producing mines and rendered transport to the Skagway port via rail redundant.

The Yukon has been a greenie/progressive nest of regression ever since and as long as the southern provinces keep shoveling $$ into the dependent gument coffers it will regress even further.

There are, however some real Yukoners who still live here, by the skin of their teeth, these sparse souls still call the Yukon, The Yukon. We still know Robert Service's poetry and we still think of this huge territory as the last frontier, in our hearts.

The very repopulation trick that 'killed' the spirit of the Yukon is hell bent on doing the same thing to Alberta, IMO. The Yukon had a small population so the dirty job did not take long - we have more bans and rules and regulations than any other jurisdiction in Canada! Forty years ago the bars stayed open 24 hours, people could carry a drink from bar to bar, smoking was fine everywhere: banks, grocery stores, classrooms; anyone could stake a claim for 10 dollars and put up a shack and dig for gold, we were considered 'nearly citizens' of Alaska and many people lived there and/or worked there part time. The border was a formality. It was a great place to live because it was interesting, challenging and had many characters who were entertaining, informative and individuals worth knowing. The memories of the old days are the 'the' in The Yukon - it is a final act of defiance.

world metal prices and the cost of transportation, not the greenies, have killed every boom in The Yukon during the last 100 years or so.