Posted on 08/24/2020 9:14:29 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Readers of a sensitive nature be warned this story contains full stops.
The humble dot may have been used to end sentences for the past 2,200 years without any whiff of offence, but to a new generation weaned on text messages, it has become a sign of muted aggression.
Feverish debate broke out on social media last week after writer Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted: 'Older people do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious.'
Several Twitter expressed disbelief, and, despite her own use of a full stop, one even accused her of 'peak snowflakery'.
That prompted crime novelist Sophie Hannah to reply: 'Just asked 16-year-old son apparently this is true. If he got a message with full stops at the end of sentences he'd think the sender was "weird, mean or too blunt".'
According to experts, youngsters used to communicating electronically break up their thoughts by sending each one as a separate message, rather than using a full stop, which they use only to signal they are annoyed or irritated.
Linguist Dr Lauren Fonteyn said: 'If you send a text message without a full stop, it's already obvious that you've concluded the message. So if you add that additional marker for completion, they will read something into it and it tends to be a falling intonation or negative tone.'
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Millennials and Gen-Z
I was praying it was the Bee.
Alas, no...
So isn't that "triggering" too?
“’Just asked 16-year-old son apparently this is true.”
Too few periods, too few commas, no capital letter _I_s, using _different than_ instead of _different from_, applying _that_ instead of _who_ to people,...
They’re drugged stupid, and they’re offended by educated people. I you argue with a drugged-up lefty who uses such mangled English, that’s the truth that will eventually come out of the their barrage of lies, projections, false accusations and insults.
>>Are you serious? Some people are being offended by...a PERIOD?????
*facepalm* You gotta be kidding me.<<
Everything old is new again. The current generation is a bunch of freaking COBOL compilers!
If you argue, even. Lost a letter there.
A semicolon must trigger heart attacks.
OMG — an ellipse!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES...
We have at least one blogger on FR who never finishes a sentence. Always half sentences that trail off with ......
Not even a clean three dot elipse...
Just off into the ether with a series of random dots.
Now I understand. I think ...
Snowflakes suffer on their periods?
Thank goodness I didn’t have my mouth full of Pepsi when I read your post!!!!!!
Have you noticed how academic lefties answer when asked questions during interviews? They begin their answers with _so_, _right_ or _sure_. They’re annoying.
Sounds like Biden-speak.
That old codger don't end his sentences either, these days.
Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted: ‘Older people do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious.’
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D.r.o.p. d.e.a.d.
Our FRiend has the record for exclamation point usage, but she’s not triggered by proper punctuation. Indeed, my guess is she’d punch out anyone whining about being so “triggered.”
I used to have a girlfriend whose periods sometimes offended me.
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