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[Rona 12]

Hi, do I use 'the' article in my sentence or better not? Thank you.
(The) early 90´s, when we formed Hora, were unique as besides being involved in ecology and animal rights being a vegetarian or vegan was quite obvious.

Note: Hora is a name of a band

 

[Rover_KE]

It is definitely necessary.

 

[tzfujimino]

What does the sentence mean? Should I read it as 'The early 90´s, when we formed Hora, were unique as besides being involved in ecology and animal rights. Being a vegetarian or vegan was quite obvious'?
Thank you.

 

[bhaisahab]

The sentence makes no sense to me either.

 

[BobK]

I suspect by 'obvious' it means 'de rigueur', 'an essential part of the Zeitgeist' - something using a foreign borrowing, anyway' ;-)

b

 

[SoothingDave]

I was alive in the 90s and I didn't find everyone to be vegetarian or vegan. I don't know what this is supposed to mean.

 

[bhaisahab]

I was alive in the 90s and I didn't find everyone to be vegetarian or vegan. I don't know what this is supposed to mean.

Perhaps you would have if you had been into "ecology and animal rights".