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As a lifelong English speaker, I would not pause when speaking in this sentence. Why would there be a semantically meaningless, unspoken comma?
by Tadpole9181 11mo ago
As 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"