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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I assume exclamation points are non-triggering?
What about question marks?
One more generation like the last two, the United States will be invaded and conquered over the next decade ... by Canada
Today’s music represents the anti-structural and dumbed-down nature of modern communication. Songs have unimaginative, repetitive melodies (if any melody at all), little or no harmony, no narrative, and repetitive lyrics. There is little structure, but a linear percussive beat with sparse instrumentation. Many of the singers adopt the exact same style, with little personal stamp, and the effect is that of a sexual plaything with a delivery of faux innocence and vulnerability.
Totally agree. I don’t like to sound like an old fogey but most of the music I hear on the radio today is basically just some kind of “throb” with a female belting out nonsense. I turn that stuff off.
do you realize WE DON'T GIVE A SH!T WHAT YOU THINK???
Yeah, and what's so special about oxford commas? They look like all the other commas... why should they get a name when the others don't?
‘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.’
But she put a . at the end of her statement. Hmmmm.
I have to admit, the inanity of the Left makes a square impact with my funny bone.
I just wish their stupidity would be confined to humor only. Their mental illness which would otherwise be ripe territory for ridicule, can have real impact on our lives in a bad way.
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’.
Too.
Darned.
Bad.
Why not. We should set gun and climate change policy based on a 16 year old too.
These agitation bits have been a thing now since before Trump started running for office. Kicked into high gear as his election deflated Cruz's and his picked up steam. These tidbit media points are nothing, but exist only to generate clicks & comments etc....
Fools empowered. Period.
Talk about making the world revolve them...
-PJ
Dan Baird - I Love You Period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkBbuhHxtM
notonlyfullstopsorperiodsareoffensiveifindcapitalisationspacesandpunctuationofanykindoffensive
Those commas also seemed a little passive aggressive to me.
Then you ended with that assault of an exclamation point!
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