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Now snowflakes are triggered by FULL STOPS: Sensitive readers find the humble dot 'weird, mean or too blunt'
Daily Mail ^
| August 22, 2020
| Holly Bancroft
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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To: Do_Tar
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Commas save lives!
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posted on
08/24/2020 11:35:49 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: everyone
82
posted on
08/24/2020 11:43:35 AM PDT
by
lerker
To: rickmichaels
That’s it. I’m staying up all tonight, thinking of things to be offended about, so I’ll be READY for these stupid bastards—READY, DAMMIT!!
83
posted on
08/24/2020 11:44:31 AM PDT
by
_longranger81
(Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
To: I want the USA back
Same for 2 + 2 = 4 which has already been branded White Supremacist. I recall reading the mathematical proof for 2+2=4.
If you have proof how could it be racist?
But of course, reality and proof are of no importance to the perpetually offended.
If it is said by a person of the correct pigmentation it is by definition true.
84
posted on
08/24/2020 11:52:51 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirs)
To: ByteMercenary
A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period Sort of like a teenage boy...
85
posted on
08/24/2020 12:05:49 PM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
To: rickmichaels
People choose to react. They are not triggered. Guns are triggered.
86
posted on
08/24/2020 12:12:38 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?my)
To: rickmichaels
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".' Well Sophie, you failed as a parent.
Hope you find that blunt. It is meant to be.
87
posted on
08/24/2020 12:26:32 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: ByteMercenary
>>Not sure why you would reference COBOL like that. A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period ... and even a small COBOL program has many dots.<<
That is my point. The compiler frequently gets very agitated if you leave out one small dot.
We all know the COBOL Credo: “Miss a period and you are in trouble.”
I don’t know about you, but I started on COBOL 68 — no “end if.” COBOL 74 was a Godsend!
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posted on
08/24/2020 1:21:17 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: commish
>>A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period
Sort of like a teenage boy...<<
Or a teenage girl. ;)
89
posted on
08/24/2020 1:28:50 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: commish
A COBOL program dies if there is even one misplaced period Sort of like a teenage boy...
It USED to be that way. Now days having multiple "baby mamas" enhances "street cred" - glorification for negative behavior. Thanks, LBJ. Good joke, by the way.
90
posted on
08/24/2020 1:44:17 PM PDT
by
MikelTackNailer
(The rioters demand change. I'm guessing that's a diaper change.)
To: bk1000
I despise getting text messages with truncated language. No one needs to conserve data these days. Terms like UR, B4, annoy me. When I text I use grammar and spelling as well as I can. It does annoy my daughter, but she is used to it.
Yup, I do the same thing. I might have used some shortcuts with my first couple phones using a T9 keyboard, but nowadays everything is proper English and correct grammar, unless I get a typo or autocorrect I don't catch before sending. My phone likes to always swap "we'll" and "well" whenever I use either one. Annoying.
One of my favorite things to do is respond with nonsense to text shortcuts. Someone says lol or l8r, I'll reply with mjm or d9y or such. Or pretend I don't know what the abbreviation means, although some of the time I actually don't.
To: rickmichaels
Rhiannon. You. Ignorant. Slut.
92
posted on
08/24/2020 2:10:10 PM PDT
by
zipper
(In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
To: ClearCase_guy; Larry Lucido; rlmorel
Not exactly the same topic, but anyway Ive noticed that people cant focus or conclude any thoughts on whatever last week I met this guy and he was you know and Im like but he didnt finish any of his so, its totally confusing and whatever so who uses periods anyway, because racism and stuff "I know someone who talks just like that. Well not just like that... What was his name? Oh yes, it was eh..."
"No, it wasn't him. He had a Texas drawl. Well, it wasn't a drawl. Oh, you're gonna do some outdoor cooking?"
93
posted on
08/24/2020 3:00:05 PM PDT
by
MikelTackNailer
(The rioters demand change. I'm guessing that's a diaper change.)
To: MikelTackNailer; ClearCase_guy; rlmorel
My favorite!
Well, not my favorite. But I liked the guy!
To: rickmichaels
We should listen to hormonal teenagers?
They need to get a life.
95
posted on
08/24/2020 5:21:25 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
To: Svartalfiar
One of my favorite things to do is respond with nonsense to text shortcuts
I love it! Cant wait to try it out.
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posted on
08/24/2020 5:53:34 PM PDT
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: rickmichaels
Just imagine what an ampersand would do&
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
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posted on
08/24/2020 5:58:58 PM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
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posted on
08/24/2020 5:58:58 PM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: metmom
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