Imagine living in a world where people are triggered by full stops...
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I've been ridiculed, though also praised, for my relative overuse of ... ellipsis, to indicate a pause in speech, or like, a hanging concept, to be later expanded on.
Many people these days apparently just do not know how ... what I understand as basic grammar and syntax ... how that works.
Of course, that may have something to do with many teachers just literally teaching books by reading aloud or assigning the actual cliff notes summary, instead of the actual book.
Average adult US literacy levels are approximately that of a 5th grader.
Most people are very nearly functionally illiterate now, roughly 15% are at or below a 2nd grade level, so they actually are functionally illiterate.
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I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned. I still put two spaces after a full stop.
But I digress. The question was about other unwritten rules of texting. Over the past year, it's become frowned upon at my company (a multinational with around 130k employees) to use the default yellow emoticons. People are gently reminded to use the colour that most closely resembles their skin. This is for conversations over Teams and Slack.
Two spaces as a convention is due to the monospaced fonts in typewriters.
If you aren't using a monospaced font it's typographically awkward.
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Being told they must match the skin of their emojis sounds kinda racist.
Those would be emojis not emoticons.
I miss emoticons. I am so done with emojis.
As to the subject you posted about color, that is crazy.
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Wha kind of stupid shit is this? Full stops in texts is passive aggressive?
How is that even done?
And how is it construed as passive aggressive? What kind of fucking idiot thought this up?
lol. Full stop.
I once confirmed an appointment over email by saying I'd 'be there with bells on', and the other person took offense. I guess they thought the use of the old-timey phrase was me being sarcastic. I thought it just showed my enthusiasm for the meeting. You just can never tell what will hit a person the wrong way.
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imprettysureancientgreekdidnthaveanyspacesorpunctuationitwasuptothereadertodecipherwhatitsaidmaybethatswrongidk
That was easier to read than I thought it would be, but I would have gotten completely derailed by an unfamiliar word.
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Don't know. Don't care. Playing games about hidden meanings gets me to stop texting you.
Why so angry?
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Damn how old is the average Lemmy user? The amount of people (allegedly) using and expecting perfect punctuation when texting scares me. I never put periods after one-liners except for nuance and if someone else does it looks weird. Depends on the person obviously, for example when my mom texts me I know I shouldnt put much thought into such details.
When my mom texts me, she signs every message lol.
-NotMyOldRedditName
My parents or rarely messaged folks precede a message by "Hey [my name], <br> (Actual message content)".
It kinda tilts me as it's a chat and not an email and I dislike the mixing of those two medium
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I assume we're all over 40.
Seems weird to me too, I first started texting around 2005 when I finally got a cell phone. When I saw full punctuation I felt like I was getting scolded.
None. Modern smartphones have put periods in automatically for so long that anyone bitching about it is just abusively making shit up.
An ellipsis, on the other hand, is passive aggressive. It ... always... implies that something has been omitted. Such as the profanity in the prior sentence.
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A lot of arguing one way or the other here but when my wife starts ending texts with periods I know im fucked.