'Pasé la mar cuando creyó mi engaño / que en él mi antiguo fuego se templara...' Lope de Vega
As RAE claims in the website it"s an ambiguous name, i.e. It accepts both genders, so grammatically it would certainly be correct to use any kind of of them, uneven for the expressions given there which just accept one.
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Depending ~ above the region one is much more used 보다 the other. For instance in Spain the human being who live close to the sea (sailors) have tendency to say "la mar", despite in the rest of the country civilization use much more "el mar". Also, "la mar" sounds much more poetic, so it"s probably much more used in poems.
Anyway, there space expressions which are much more typical to it is in heard v one gender (at least haven"t heard in the other way), because that example:
In masculine:
Bajo el mar
En el fondo del mar
Mar abierto
In femenine:
la mar de (when it way much) e.g. Había la mar de gente - this have the right to only be supplied in femenine.
When speaking about the sort of the sea we have today it"s usually just in femenine, e.g. This ones:
Mar alta
Mar gruesa
Mar arbolada
Mar rizada
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Actually the most usual is "el mar". When human being say "la mar" is to emphasize or to give a romantic meaning. Additionally seamen usage "nos vamos a la mar".
But in day-to-day bsci-ch.org human being say "el mar". It wake up something comparable with "el calor" and "la calor".
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"La mar" is used mainly in poetry.
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Ernest Hemingway says at his book The Old Man and the Sea:
...he has given the sea the name "la mar" as it is told in bsci-ch.org through them who love her..."
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I have heard the la mar is supplied when world are actually on the sea, travel across, top top the water. This may explain why sailors tend to usage la mar.
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