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I had someone get mad at me once because I ended an otherwise innocuous text with a period. I was like, it doesn't mean anything. I was going to write another sentence, but then didn't. Stop imagining secret meanings.
I think they were my worst ex partner, come to think of it.
That was very much a milennial thing about 15 years ago. I didnβt get it at all, adding a period was somehow like a sign of passive aggressiveness or something.
Thank goodness that seems to have faded away.
Thank goodness that seems to have faded away.
What the fuck did you just fucking punctuate at me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills!
U wot m8
Jesus, thank you, civilized conversation!
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definitely not just a millennial thing, I've had gen Z friends call me out on using proper punctuation in online messages lol
It's still a thing. The new rule is: never end a paragraph with a full stop, otherwise it's perceived as overly formal or cold. You can still use them within paragraphs, it's only the very end of a paragraph you omit it
At least, that's the rule my autistic ass has reverse-engineered. Also, lol cannot have any punctuation immediately after it like "lol.", otherwise it comes across as flat and half-hearted. You need to restructure your whole sentence if that happens
Interesting, I haven't come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you're sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn't add anything functionally.
Maybe an older millennial thing but I remember the big thing being βwe have full keyboards now so no more t9 speakβ. That included using proper punctuation.
That being said, as an anxious person I still end almost every text with an ! so people donβt think I am upset.
Yeah I was pretty taken aback when someone first told me about this. She got mad that I ended a text with a period. I was like "what, that's just proper punctuation." And then she got even madder because she thought I was being a grammar snob. I was so fucking confused.
Later she said that it's like saying "period." at the end of a sentence, and accused me of knowing that and only pretending not to. But like, if I wanted to sentence to read "period" at the end, I would have typed the word "period."
I got really insecure and hypervigilant about ending texts with periods after that. It took me years to get over that and even now I still get anxious about sending texts with periods in them...
This is why we millennials add lol to everything I swear it. Iβve also evolved and started adding :). I hate sending work emails because I canβt do either thing, so Iβm just the bottom frame gal in my mind.
Millennial here. I used to think of emojis as unprofessional, but then my current workplace started including them (and cringey slang) in important messages.
So, I readjusted my expectations. Limited emoji use = professional.
Then last year, I used the angry face π along with a message. That seemed to concern people?
So now I'm wondering if "happy" emojis are allowed professionally, but negative ones aren't (just as negative emotion must be hidden in all other aspects of society, I guess?)
I don't know. There are no written rules. I'd rather we all go back to just using proper grammar and full sentences like we used to for work communications. I'm both too autistic and too old for this trendy shit.
That's correct, you are only allowed to use cutesy or positive emojis. Which is why I strive to only use the most obscure
It really depends on your who your workers are, but I absolutely don't use emojies in work emails. I do use them in teams messages though.
Emails are for conversations I want documented. Chat messages are the equivalent of a desk conversation.
Also, yeah, angry emojies are still taboo at any type of work chat for me. Can't be seen as angry at the office.
As a an anxious millennial I add: cool, π , π, π, XD or π¬. All inappropriately placed.
That's why you put a tilde at the end of everything.
See you there~
Bitch~
this is why I like tildes. "see you there~" is cute and not overly excited sounding.
I've never seen a tilde used that way before, but if I ever saw that, I would think they have worms or something. Or it's a Gen-Z version of the ellipses... Like that which I've heard youngsters mock Gen-X for using ellipses...
really? I'm a millennial and my girlfriend used it in like 2009, that's where I picked it up lol.
That's why I end all of my texts with "bitch"
I punctuate because I'm writing. Seems fitting, no?
Is that why there seems to be hardly any punctuation left? I see this over and over again in the posted screenshots and comments here, and it drives me absolutely crazy. Punctuation serves a purpose, but most importantly, it makes the crap you ejaculate into the ether easier to read. This text was written by an autistic old man.
just to be safe i never use any punctuation at all that way there is no risk of any misunderstanding it has never caused me any problems
I don't know if you're being sarcastic?
I'll give you a hint: it was painfully hard for me to resist capitalizing the "I".
I wanted to write it in a way that actually would be misunderstood due to lack of punctuation, but it was too much of a cognitive load. In my native language it's really easy: for example, the difference between "No, I'll do it" and "I won't do it" is just a comma. But in English it's not that easy.
I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?
Woah calm the fuck down and please censor your punctuation for sensitive readers
My therapist likes to end texts with ellipsis... Apparently my partner's mom does this too, so maybe it's a boomer/old person thing...
My kids therapist would do that too and it always made her seem Ominous.
Like:
βIβll see you two next week β¦β
Like, are you threatening us?
That's exactly what it was for me and, before I realized I should stop reading into it because she's my therapist and direct communication is the whole point, I thought I might've said something weird.
It's old-fashioned informal writing. Until about 20 years ago, the vast majority of writing was formal writing. Formal writing follows formal speech patterns, with proper sentences and commas and full stops. This is what you'd learn at school. When we talk informally, everyday, we don't actually talk like that. We talk more in fragments. An ellipsis is sort of the old person's way of separating these fragments. Younger people tend to press enter and send another message to separate the fragments. Maybe the oldies get annoyed at young people sending multiple messages when it could have been one.
A colleague signs his emails with his name followed by an ellipse, with no sign off pleasantry.
It always seems like heβs sulking.
Monumentβ¦
That's psychopath behavior
Joel...
I know this is comic but if I received a "SEE YOU THERE" text with all caps I would be taken aback. They are shouting at me.
save yourself the hassle and just skip the reply entirely!
That's exactly what I mean
Sure, see you there! :)
Yep, accurate - one of the reasons i normally skip punctuation at the end of private messages and either replace it with an smiley, lol or β¦ .
It's somehow funny that you decided to end this sentence with a dot which otherwise would've ended with three dots :D
See you there π
