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Martin Sleziak

3:54 AM

I am not a native speaker, so I'll ask people more fluent in English.

If I want to refer to any war I should use a war and to refer specifically to WWII I should say the war?

I am asking in connection with the phrasing/title of this question:

Mathematical research interrupted by the war

Martin Sleziak

4:29 AM

It seems that some other users asked the same question:

Isn't the original question asking specifically about WW2? — Yemon Choi 7 hours ago

Indeed it's ambiguous whether the question is about WW2. But especially, the question is about mathematical research interrupted by the war, not just a list of mathematicians who were killed, or affected in any way. You can imagine math research interrupted by the war without somebody specifically killed, and imagine mathematicians killed but who were inactive at the time of war. Mentioning mathematicians killed (or interrupted in any way...) without mentioning what they were active about, does not, in my opinion, answer the question. — YCor 3 hours ago

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Martin Sleziak

1:24 PM

The question mentioned above was edited (the war $\to$ a war): Mathematical research interrupted by a war.

Not surprisingly, this question is in HNQ. Another question currently among hot network questions: Which topological manifolds do not correspond to strongly Haudorff locales?

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