There’s no comma there. They use it as punctuation at the end of a sentence:

e.g.: “I heard your mother died I’m sorry lol”

Suddenly, in sync, a lot of the “people” in the bar say in unison “As a strong black woman, I think president Trump is right about…”

Half the seats at the bar are filled with mannequins, but that makes the bar feel crowded, like it’s still the happenin’ spot. That convinces a lot of brands, celebrities, politicians and journalists that they still need to keep making appearances at the bar.

Wait, now they’re plural?

That depends on the wording.

Interesting that you use the word “chord”, because guitarists and piano players have been remembering chords forever based on the position of their hands, not based on some letters and numbers. Your version isn’t more easily memorized, it’s just different.

Which is something you have to memorize. Do you honestly think that that is somehow easier to memorize than say “Ctrl-Shift-5”?

Ooh, I like before and benign because at first there doesn’t seem to be anything tricky going on there.

Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions.

By memorizing something else that’s equally or more obscure.

Can you imagine? A modern day oracle. Scientists would be lining up to ask questions about how the world worked and everything you said would be true.

It would be great for just confirming things that science suspected were true. Like, all the rare particles they’re trying to find with the Large Hadron Collider. They could just ask the oracle and learn all the particles they were missing, along with all the important data about them.

Best of all, if you couldn’t lie, and couldn’t be wrong (even if you didn’t know the answer) it could be used to “discover” things without ever having to go down blind alleys, or waste time with research that won’t bear fruit. For example, you could ask “is it possible for something like a spaceship to move faster than the speed of light?” If the answer is no, then you can write off working on that forever. If it’s yes, you could progressively ask questions to learn the theory you’d need to know to build a FTL ship. It could also finally put to bed whether time travel is possible, and how the paradoxes involved are resolved.

If FTL travel is possible, you could just ask the oracle where all the various aliens are, making it really easy to contact them (plus the oracle can tell you if it’s unsafe to contact them).

Also, since it was obviously possible to transform someone into an oracle, it should be possible to do that again. You can just ask the oracle the right questions needed to create a second, third, tenth, 1000th oracle. That way the one oracle isn’t always so busy, and if the first oracle dies, there are still many more.

Too bad all the (common) silent b words are words with b in the middle, not at the beginning. Bdellium would work, but that’s something I think 99.9% of the planet has never heard of. If that were allowed, I bet you could find extremely rare names for every other letter.

Madueke getting injured while dribbling hard toward his own net from the halfway line kinda sums up where things are right now.

• E: Ewe
• H: Hugh
• U: Uyghur
• Y: Yew

X: how bout either “Xenophobia” or even better, the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, as it’s written in English: Xi.

Better suggestions for B:

• Breath: Half the people would say “breathe” instead.
• Boatswain: most people would have no idea how that’s pronounced
• Bury: a word with lots of different regional pronunciations

The original version of the comment said, I believe “So there is precedence”. That could be fixed as “there is a precedent” or “there are precedents”. I suggested “precedents” because it seems like OP used the homophone for that one. So, “precedents” is correct, “precedence” is not.

There was fuck all need for that. I actually mostly backed you up in another comment.

Bruh, you said “Bruh. If you’re going to correct, be sure you’re correct.”, when I was correct and OP was incorrect.

Note that the original has been edited. It used to say “precedence”.

Before OP edited the comment it used “precedence”. They mean different things.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-precedent-vs-precedence

https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/precedence_precedent.htm

https://languagetool.org/insights/post/precedence-or-precedent/

https://www.thoughtco.com/precedence-precedents-and-presidents-1689468

What’s next, are you going to claim “presidents” is another alternative spelling that means the same thing?

I am.

They mean different things.