Do you think its aggressive to use fullstops, (periods)?
I was reading that some of the generation coming up now consider fullstops to be aggressive, esp in texting amonst friends. That "the inclusion of such a formality creates distance and is seen as passive/aggressive"... at the very least, it adds a negative flavour to a comment .
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As one who tries to put expression into this hard style of writing, (text), i try to make grammar my friend.....bend it to my needs... same with spelling.
Now i wonder if such grammar could be percieved in a negative light 🤔
But then, i also see how a select few post - and to me its just a mass of words with no inflection or spaces. So in reading you find yourself mentally gasping for breath as they are no pauses or stops. To me, its like the words jist poured out and got dumped on the screen, and i have to sift thru it to find where the pauses might likey go 🤷
(And i dont like that.😑 Wjy should i read something 2 or 3 times to find out what they likely mean ?
...and these are the ones that often get shitty that people misinterpret what they say 🙄
Then i get all pissy coz they don't understand that, (to me), their laziness to express - causes extra effort on the readers behalf)
So where's the happy medium ?
Or is it just " fuckit?"
I fully agree texting is definitely informal. But which is more important ? Bending it to ever fluxing unspoken social trends, or shaping it to ones mode of informal personal expresion ?
Amd more importantly - can it sufficiently lose all grammar - and still keep quality of expression?
I feel we are being textually reduced to sound bites😕
Whatever the trend, I'm going to continue using correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. And, I always appreciate when others do the same.
When I come across text that's lacking in proper grammar and traditional writing rules, I [i]try[/i] to understand what's being said, but sometimes, just can't. Sometimes, the ambiguities are so great, I can't even understand what the writer is trying to say. When it becomes too difficult to make out the content, I read something else.
Whatever a new gen wants, a new gen deserves. I honestly believe this. This is slightly off topic but remember what ticked you off about older people and their rules when you and I were younger? It's their world more and more now and older folks are going to have to adapt (or go into hiding complaining about how things were better in "our day")
It's those mysterious nuances that are hard to understand. Like the amount of people who find thumb up reaction condescending. I wonder what percentage of those emotions that emoticons and punctuation trigger is learned behaviour and what is an automatic reaction. And what does it say about us. 😆
For example, perceiving this negatively 🙂 is definitely learned for me because I've seen too many people use it behind a sarcastic or criticizing comment. They clearly use it as a passive-aggressive element to mock. Then there was a big public hype around it on here too. However, the thumbs up one was negative to me right off the bat and it seems a few other people feel the same.
About using a period, I remember how I put it after a one word reply for no particular reason once and someone said something like "wow, you really mean it." So well, since then I sometimes use it as stressing the point if people read it that way. 😂
@CrazyMusicLover i did a little research on emojis a few years back - and its very interesting that no matter how much study goes into designing them to mean something very specific - once thrown into wind of social use - they find their own meaning .
Like 💁was originally meant to mean ' aid' or literally ' help desk'....yet it became a 'hair flip' which implies being cheeky or sassy .
So even [b]with [/b] them, we can still 'intent' wrong.
@Convivial I always doubt structures like this too. Technically it refers to both the sound and the rules, both singular and multitude. I'm not sure if both verbs are correct then or if both are wrong and such constructions should be avoided. 🤷
Not using "full stops" and punctuation is just laziness. I suppose one could make the argument that it could also be ignorance. Trying to make the case that it is positive trend is just making excuses for sloth.
@bowman81 i feel a little bit the same . I know i ofren text a msg, send it - then realize that there are spaces and spelling i need to correct. Its an effort for me to stop and proof read my thought before i send it off thru the ether.
If the aim if language is communication - then surely making it as clear as one can is important?
Maybe they arent taught this anymore ? But i also wonder if they are so impulsive, they never stop to read what they write?
There seems so little effort of thought, clarity, and defintion in writing these days.
I can't even be bothered to follow whatever these trends are and what their determination pool was. People who text with me know me and I will carry on as I always have.
Just get around it using parenthesis and a bunch of ellipses. You can make a semi-intelligent sounding run-on sentence ... language morphs and evolves, you know.
