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I meant to add he was a Russian national.

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Something I've often noticed with native Russian speakers, their tendency to omit indefinite articles, like 'the', 'an', 'that', etc..

I don't know whether this is an artifact of their native language, or merely personal idiosyncracy found in cyclothymic personality.

I'm not a skilled linguist myself.

re 20:

again, FS

Slavic languages do tend not to have articles. They have more cases though!

oh the cases - I shed many a tear over Russian cases as a girl.

Korean doesn't use articles either. I speak to so many Koreans who don't use them when speaking English that I've started to drop them too

"their tendency to omit indefinite articles, like 'the', 'an', 'that"

The is a definite article

But yes, I have a vague suspicion it doesn't have either - cyrillic shares a chunk with Greek, which has definite but not indefinite. (at least in it's classical form, but someone who can actually use Greek appears!)

Indeed I assume we get ours from the Germanic side of our language, since we couldn't from our romantic side

I don't have a romantic side anyway.