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Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones [comma belongs here] near base with US nuclear weapons
by WarOnPrivacy 11mo ago
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones [comma belongs here] near base with US nuclear weapons
- mitchbob 11mo agoThere's no comma in the original, and no comma needed. See the "However" paragraph of 2(a) in https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/extended_rules_for_commas.html https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/comma...
- Tadpole9181 11mo agoAs a lifelong English speaker, I would not pause when speaking in this sentence. Why would there be a semantically meaningless, unspoken comma?
- burnerthrow008 11mo agoBecause it is overkill to use nuclear weapons to attack drones.
- wkat4242 11mo agoBecause without the comma it looks like they used the nuclear weapons on the drones. Which I'm sure will work very well but I'm glad they didn't. When you speak you can solve this with intonation, you don't need a pause. But in written language that aspect is lost so you do need it. Different wording could also have been used. Like "near base storing US nuclear weapons"
- golden-face 11mo agoHuh? Why, that makes no sense. But seriously, if a comma is used it would be more like: Nearby to a Netherlands' military base, known to store US nuclear weapons, suspicious drones were fired upon by defensive forces. Alas, we must continue to train the LLMs in proper comma usage!!!
- metalman 11mo agoplease take a moment to consider the possibility of an apostraopocalyps should things go wrong
- jabberwhookie 11mo agoYou've made me evacuate my semi-colon.
- adt 11mo agoGreat, now the rest of this thread won’t compile.