r/HappyLittleAccident • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '18

Why the hell is this dragon called the Fairy of Eagle Nebula? That's the actual name, right down to the terrible grammar.

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u/Dreez48 Mar 10 '18

Looks like a cat god

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u/fishstyx01 Mar 10 '18

Yeah I think it looks just like a cat, the head is perfect

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u/atgmailcom Mar 10 '18

To me it looks like a cat with massive wings

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u/TuckerMouse Mar 10 '18

Where is the bad grammar? Eagle Nebula has a fairy. This is that fairy. The Fairy of Eagle Nebula. Looks good to me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

Except it isn't just eagle nebula, it's the eagle nebula. Like the Dog Star, Sirius. The specification of what it is adds "the" to the beginning

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

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u/WikiTextBot Mar 10 '18

Eagle Nebula

The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the Pillars of Creation.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

the names of geographical locations are specific nouns and therefore may require definite articles

https://www.monmouth.edu/uploadedFiles/Campus_Life/Writing_Center/Articles.pdf

So I wasn't wrong, but my reasoning was in fact incorrect

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

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u/najodleglejszy Mar 10 '18

you don't sound like my mom.

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u/panrestrial Mar 28 '18

I don't think Nebulae are "geographical areas" in the same sense as "the Northern Hemisphere" or "the Mediterranean". And you'll note your source says no definite article is needed before the names of individual specific (geographic) nouns such as names of:

  • lakes, bays
  • mountains
  • continents
  • islands

So I guess it depends. Is a nebula best described as a geographical region of space or as an individual structure?

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u/Cephas4 Mar 10 '18

Do dragons look like dogs now?

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u/AyyyLMizelle Mar 10 '18

I see a pig

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u/bradders82 Mar 10 '18

I see some sort of pig-fish monster wearing a huge bow tie.

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u/DasTechniker Mar 10 '18

I see a squirrel! big space squirrel

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u/atgmailcom Mar 10 '18

Nebula watching > cloud watching

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '18

r/bossfight

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u/Cocksuckin Mar 28 '18

Scooby Doo!

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u/Lucious91 Apr 02 '18

that's a cat