Fuck it, that was a quality answer.
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But not a quality audience.
I would have silently gone in my head ABCDEFGHIJKL and then said "MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", but I suppose I could have said "MABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", or should I say "MABCDEFGHIJKLOPQRSTUVWXYZ"?
Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one? A better order, off the top of my head, is OUEIAPKGHXBDPTMNLWYVZSFRCQJ
You left out an 'N.' I'm gonna have to escort you out of the comment section.
Clearly they're drunk, get 'em outta here
If drunk people aren't allowed on Lemmy, we're collectively gonna have a problem.
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Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one?
Because some Phoenician jerk picked it arbitrarily about ten thousand years or so ago and it stuck.
Those dang Arizonans are nothing but trouble, I tells ya..
Thank god they make decent ice tea
But your version doesn't match Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as well.
I strongly believe we should teach the alphabet as qwertyu iopa sdfgh jkl zxc vb n and m
Why not Dvorak? I have been told its way more efficient typing, though also completely incomprehensible.
Because then it would start with .
Because what you were told were mostly lies.
It's not more efficient, but it does feel better on the hands, in my opinion.
The reason the alphabetical order is like that is because it was passed down all the way from the 14th century BC and potentially before, so a lot of sound changes and mild order changes happened (like Z going from the letter after E to the last letter) and you have the modern English alphabetical order
Maybe Seedy He Effed G, Hate I JK Ellen Mellow Pee
Look 'm in the eye and say M A C A B. It's not about repeating the alphabet, it's about asserting dominance.
Should he have said, "Mthe alphabet"?
Funny but no casino would stop a drunk guy from losing money at the table
It's a high bar; he might have been poor and making the rich people uncomfortable.
The fuck? You'd think a casino would let the drunk dude keep losing money.
Probably a liability or legal issue if they're too drunk.
Can see myself doing this while not drunk lmfao
Alphabet starting with M? Hey, prescriptivist dingdongs, you can't just say there is now apparently an alphabet that starts with M! Those things don't exist in vacuum - if you make something like this up, you have to go all the way and define such an alphabet clearly!
Rules mean nothing unless they clarify established language use conventions! Which is why I think descriptivist approach is better in most cases.
for the lazy:
mnopqrstuvwxyz
Fine: "the alphabet starting with emm"
Malllphhhhpabehhhh