• Aneb@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • Beth@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    This is why we millennials add lol to everything I swear it. I’ve also evolved and started adding :). I hate sending work emails because I can’t do either thing, so I’m just the bottom frame gal in my mind.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 hours ago

      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 😠 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.

      • DaGeek247@fedia.io
        3·
        3 hours ago

        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.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
        5·
        4 hours ago

        That’s correct, you are only allowed to use cutesy or positive emojis. Which is why I strive to only use the most obscure

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    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 … .

    • kadotux@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      3 hours ago

      It’s somehow funny that you decided to end this sentence with a dot which otherwise would’ve ended with three dots :D

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 hours ago

    I’m as Millennial as it gets and I use proper punctuation everywhere. I just looked at some group chats and I’m definitely the exception.

  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
    1·
    4 hours ago

    It’s also possible to not use punctuation (except of commas, of course) to sidestep the issue

  • t_berium@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    12 hours ago

    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

      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        9 hours ago

        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.

        • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          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

          Can you elaborate on that? 🤔

          • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            4 hours ago

            Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”

            In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.

            But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.

            The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.