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Malphabet. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

for the lazy:

mnopqrstuvwxyz

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 145 points 2 days ago

Fuck it, that was a quality answer.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

But not a quality audience.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago

You left out an 'N.' I'm gonna have to escort you out of the comment section.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Clearly they're drunk, get 'em outta here

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

If drunk people aren't allowed on Lemmy, we're collectively gonna have a problem.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

watches as weekly active users of all communities plummet

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Down the stairs

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Those dang Arizonans are nothing but trouble, I tells ya..

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank god they make decent ice tea

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Basically. 99 Percent Invisible did a podcast on this very topic: Episode 468 Alphabetical Order

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

But your version doesn't match Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as well.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I strongly believe we should teach the alphabet as qwertyu iopa sdfgh jkl zxc vb n and m

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Why not Dvorak? I have been told its way more efficient typing, though also completely incomprehensible.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Because what you were told were mostly lies.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

It's not more efficient, but it does feel better on the hands, in my opinion.

[-] bdonvr 2 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Light mode keyboard and dark mode app? Shame on you

[-] bdonvr 3 points 2 days ago

The system changes modes at sunrise/sunset but Voyager is always dark mode.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

if you're having issues with dismissing that voicemail notification you need to wipe data from the "phone services" app, it doesn't show up normally and you need to enable "show system apps". don't disable it, just wipe the data

[-] bdonvr 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not, but thanks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Because then it would start with .

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe Seedy He Effed G, Hate I JK Ellen Mellow Pee

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Look 'm in the eye and say M A C A B. It's not about repeating the alphabet, it's about asserting dominance.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

Should he have said, "Mthe alphabet"?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Mmmmm, ohhhhh, the aalphabeeeeet

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

The fuck? You'd think a casino would let the drunk dude keep losing money.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Probably a liability or legal issue if they're too drunk.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Funny but no casino would stop a drunk guy from losing money at the table

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

It's a high bar; he might have been poor and making the rich people uncomfortable.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That answer should have been worth a free drink and a taxi home

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Can see myself doing this while not drunk lmfao

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Fine: "the alphabet starting with emm"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Sounds sober to me

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Malllphhhhpabehhhh

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