That was very much a milennial thing about 15 years ago. I didn’t get it at all, adding a period was somehow like a sign of passive aggressiveness or something.
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!
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
It’s just a way people indicate tone. Online communication is developing its own grammar and punctuation rules to get around the shortcomings of written language to succinctly express emotion/intent
Written language is evolving, the period being the pointed end to a sentence may lead to a new punctuation mark as the period only becomes “ok” as a separator.
Or maybe we go full comma, that would be weird, I think, yeah,
I just went through 4 years of university as an elder millenial, the youngins still feel this way and I honestly thought it was a Gen Z thing. I’d never encountered the punctuation issue before I decided to go to school again
Maybe an older millennial thing but I remember the big thing being “we have full keyboards now so no more t9 speak”. That included using proper punctuation.
That being said, as an anxious person I still end almost every text with an ! so people don’t think I am upset.
I’m an older millennial and I basically refused to text more than a three-word sentence at a time up until, oh, probably 10 years ago because I hated typing on my phone. I doubt I used punctuation at all.
That was very much a milennial thing about 15 years ago. I didn’t 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.
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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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
definitely not just a millennial thing, I’ve had gen Z friends call me out on using proper punctuation in online messages lol
Really? Guess some are carrying it forward. Nonetheless, seems spotty. It’s not something I have had to deal with in a long time.
It’s just a way people indicate tone. Online communication is developing its own grammar and punctuation rules to get around the shortcomings of written language to succinctly express emotion/intent
Written language is evolving, the period being the pointed end to a sentence may lead to a new punctuation mark as the period only becomes “ok” as a separator.
Or maybe we go full comma, that would be weird, I think, yeah,
I just went through 4 years of university as an elder millenial, the youngins still feel this way and I honestly thought it was a Gen Z thing. I’d never encountered the punctuation issue before I decided to go to school again
Maybe an older millennial thing but I remember the big thing being “we have full keyboards now so no more t9 speak”. That included using proper punctuation.
That being said, as an anxious person I still end almost every text with an ! so people don’t think I am upset.
I’m an older millennial and I basically refused to text more than a three-word sentence at a time up until, oh, probably 10 years ago because I hated typing on my phone. I doubt I used punctuation at all.
Has it? I’m really asking. The only one I text with regularly is my son, and I taught him to use punctuation, and he knows I prefer it.
AFAIK. My kids are texting fools. I asked, it’s not a thing. However, getting upset about any manufactured slight due to punctuation is a thing.