This house would support removing or replacing the word "the" in the English language.

THIS HOUSE In a debate resolution the term "this house" is a traditional way to state a resolution. What it means is the school a person represents, the debate team or in this instance me personally would advocate for removing or replacing the word "The". If I show the benefits of replacing the word "the", outweighs the negative than I win this debate. I think my opponent may be confusing the term "this house", with "the house". According to the Edeb8 debate glossary of terms; " A traditional feature of each motion, 'the house' is also in most debates up for the proposition to define as the relevant actor in the debate e. g. 'by this house we mean the British Government', 'Western Liberal Democracies', 'the average, reasonable person'. " . http://www.edeb8.com... WIKIPEDIA Wikipedia is Actually a pretty reliable source and gets More flak than what it should a recent study has shown that it's just as reliable as The Encyclopedia Brittanica. The journal nature points out that Wikipedia is a reliable Source. According to CNET news Reporting on the journal's findings. "For its study, Nature chose articles from both sites in a wide range of topics and sent them to what it called "relevant" field experts for peer review. The experts then compared the competing articles--one from each site on a given topic--side by side, but were not told which article came from which site. Nature got back 42 usable reviews from its field of experts. In the end, the journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts, in the articles. Of those, four came from each site. They did, however, discover a series of factual errors, omissions or misleading statements. All told, Wikipedia had 162 such problems, while Britannica had 123. That averages out to 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia. "An expert-led investigation carried out by Nature--the first to use peer review to compare Wikipedia and Britannica's coverage of science," the journal wrote, "suggests that such high-profile examples (like the Seigenthaler and Curry situations) are the exception rather than the rule. " . http://news.cnet.com... Also, here is where Wikipedia cites their information, so you may want to actually check the citations before missing an article out of hand. . http://www.oxforddictionaries.com... SWIPE Swipe isn't for everyone. The people that use swipe will no doubt, Not need to worry about using It or the symbol will automatically pop up when they press TH. So this still saves a lot of people that don't use swipe a lot of time, And not all people like swipe. WHERE IT WILL SAVE TIME I use the and symbol when taking notes in class it saves me a ton of time and ever since I learned about the "the" symbol, I use it a lot in class,taking notes as well. This symbol will save students a ton of time. On regular keyboards you just use the shift key, so it will save a ton of time on regular keyboards, and on phone keyboards it can save a bunch of time, depending on if the alternate symbols disappear when you press an alternate one, if it's on the main keyboard and a number of other factors. The symbol at the very least would be swapped out with the & symbol on the keyboard and certainly be more useful than that thing. CONCLUSION At worst the "The" symbol is harmless and at least replaces the & symbol on a keyboard. So even at it's worse, it's still an improvement because it's a more frequently used word. At it's best it save a ton of time, increasing overall productivity in society and cumulatively saves a ton of time.