Board game collection sorted alphabetically

It doesn't matter for sorting, since "The" is never used as the first letter in this case.

it's 'S' for correctness, 'C' for "where the fuck did I put Catan?"

'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway.

> The Boardgame of J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

It clearly goes under B.

This game was renamed last year, in its 5th edition, to "Catan." C.

When referring to the 1st through 4th editions, "The Settlers of Catan" is the correct title. S.
Known as "Lord of the Rings" in all editions. L.

Really? I've always thought of it as "Settlers" as does everyone I know.

I lied, the newer editions (2010, 2012) are "The Lord of the Rings."

Why does the knight close his eyes, or is he oriental maybe? I'm so confused.

>'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway.

Why do you deceive us?

So if I have all five editions, one of them will stand apart on some other distant shelf? That's not right.

You always ignore any the's in a word, and depending on how you think of it i.e:
"I want to play The Settlers of Catan"
or
"I want to play Catan."

ditto

"The" doesn't count. Put it under S.

The sun is obviously in his eyes, so he's squinting to see.

If you're that serious of a collector, then you are sorting board games by publisher name, then publication date, then finally by game title. Looks a lot nicer that way

>Have board games from parallel dimensions
>Never really know how to sort them

>serious collector
>not even sorting them by box color

Catan, the Settlers of

>"The" doesn't count.
As ESL this confuses the hell out of me.

But then my native puts c after h if it's followed by h, but between b and č otherwise, so who am I to judge...

See, as a native English speaker, this makes sense to me because so many games and titles start with The.

If you counted the The every time when alphabetizing, you'd inevitably have more games grouped in the T section than anywhere else, which goes against the whole point of alphabetizing.

of Catan, The Settlers

In my opinion the point of alphabetizing is not so much having equal distribution for each number but having faster search in ordered set.

Why would you sort them alphabetically? My game club sorts first by duration, minimum number of players, and finally type. So Love Letter, Bannanagrams and other time-filler games are in one section, while Battlestar Galactica and other long games are seperate.

C. Catan, The Settlers of.

t. I alphabetized shit for a living all throughout the 90s.

>Why would you sort them alphabetically?
because it improves your worst case search from n to log n

Dear English,
WHY THE HELL DID YOU INVENT "THE"? I CAN'T IMAGINE A MORE USELESS WORD

The correct answer is to sort it under T, for trash.

i dont put it anywhere because its a shit game

Settlers of Catan, The - S
Lord of the Rings, The - L

Because it allows specification of a particular object without having to specify "but not other examples of similar objects". So, "did you feed the cat" or "could you get the vacuum cleaner out" rather than "did you feed your cat" or "could you get our family vacuum cleaner out". It also reduces cognitive load, as you don't have to find the correct word to use - just stick "the" in front of the object in question.
Also, "the" isn't an invention of the English language.

if you think that "the" is bad wait until you see how it translates in italian:
il
lo
la
i
gli
le

Oh, and while I remember: the sheer versatility of "the" makes it one of the most useful words in the English language, not one of the least. Compare a word like, say, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which is used either to specify an extremely rare disease of the lungs or for impressing your friends, and "the" suddenly looks a hell of a lot more useful.

>'Lord of the Rings' doesn't start with a 'the' anyway
You sure about that?

>look at VTNL
>makes FATAL look good

C is for Catan, obviously, what kind of subhuman would put it in any other place?

In my language we have nothing like "the" and we're fine. If you really need to specify which cat you fed you say "that cat".
Though, I agree, "a" is far more useless.