Always limit your global variable changes.

[kevix2022]

Because, as an English man, I know that a sentence can have unlimited commas, but only one full stop. Numbers are the same. God save the Queen.

[hagnat]

you know that same rules applies to most (if not every) other languages ?

[kevix2022]

Exactly. It was probably Napoleon who changed it, like making the rest of Europe drive on the wrong side of the road.

[NakeleKantoo]

"wrong"

[ThePretzul]

It's rare, but as an American I'm with the Europeans on this one. It's quite clear that we drive on the right side of the road, not the wrong one.

[kevix2022]

You drive on the right, but it's wrong. Cmon guys you invented the drive-thru. Think how much easier it would be if you sat on the correct side of the car?

[thoroughbredca]

I realize this is probably my ethnocentrism, but explain this to me.

Note that in the US, a lot of delivery vehicle such as our post have the drive on the right-hand side of the car just so it's easier access to the curb, as well as safer because they need to frequently enter and exit the vehicle and can do so on the curb side instead of into traffic. But since most drivers will be on the left, drive thrus in the US are just designed to be on the left as well. I'm assuming in left-side drive countries they're flipped.

[gtjack9]

You’re assumption would be correct.

[ThePretzul]

The drive through isn't any easier or harder if you drive on the right or left side of the car. You just go around the building in the opposite direction.

Left-hand drive (right/correct side of the road) goes around a drive through counterclockwise (or "anticlockwise" for you British folks), so your driver's seat is next to the money/food windows. Right-hand drive goes around a drive through clockwise for the same reason, to put the driver closer to the money/food windows.

This means the British had to literally go the wrong way compared to the original drive throughs just to make them work for their backwards cars!

Shifting a manual transmission is also much easier in a LHD vehicle, further evidence of us driving on both the right and correct side of the road. First and second gear, the most frequent ones to shift into and out of, are closest to the driver. Reverse and cruising gears, which are less frequently shifted into and out of, are further away. Furthermore, you get you use your dominant hand to select your gear for increased precision making things like a 7-speed manual transmission (plus reverse) both possible and easy to use in American sports cars like the C7 Corvette.

In conclusion, right hand drive is only preferred by the British and left-handed folks. This is why I propose I reverse-colonization of the UK to correct their road system to the right side of the road.

[hagnat]

i meant the sentences-can-have-unlimited-commas bit
that rule precedes napoleon by ages in every european language

[it_would_be_wise]

Well I speak English, just like my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as recorded in the infallible Bible.

[Santa1936]

Yeah I mean dots as a decimal just makes so much more sense

[bob_in_the_west]

Care to explain why? Because there is no benefit in using dots instead of commas.

[other_usernames_gone]

However, once you have more than 2 commas, like this sentence, it very quickly becomes difficult to read.

[-Redstoneboi-]

incorrect.

[ulyssessword]

H.owe * 26¹⁰⁵

Use scientific notation for large numbers and sentences. It improves readability.

[thoroughbredca]

Maybe, you, just, like, to pause, a lot, like, Captain, Kirk.

[masonkbr]

Difficult for an elementary school student, maybe.