As a lifelong English speaker, I would not pause when speaking in this sentence. Why would there be a semantically meaningless, unspoken comma?
burnerthrow008•2mo ago
Because it is overkill to use nuclear weapons to attack drones.
wkat4242•2mo ago
Because 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•2mo ago
Huh? 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•2mo ago
please take a moment to consider the possibility of an apostraopocalyps should things go wrong
jabberwhookie•2mo ago
You've made me evacuate my semi-colon.
adt•2mo ago
Great, now the rest of this thread won’t compile.
wkat4242•2mo ago
In Holland the existence of these weapons is a "state secret". So our news never mentions that. It's a bit stupid because everyone knows they're there.
WarOnPrivacy•2mo ago
mitchbob•2mo ago
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/comma...
Tadpole9181•2mo ago
burnerthrow008•2mo ago
wkat4242•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
jabberwhookie•2mo ago
adt•2mo ago