• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month 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

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      1 month 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.

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

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      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

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