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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 .

🤔

😂

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😕
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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")


The Times They Are A-Changin'
@SW-User oh i totally get that language is morphic and organic.
We wouldn't have what we have without it being so.

New additions like emojis are wonderful 🤗
And i like that being able to mispell some words is also very expressive.

But i see some posts here - and its like they are so bare boned, they are down to a sunbaked skeleton - one has to be forensic to read them 😂
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@OogieBoogie

I know - - I'm confused by it all but I suppose that's the point.
@SW-User you know - ive thought that too.

Some posts seem deliberately vague - which makes people ask questions, and puts the attention on the poster - rather than the other way round.

Which to me is an interesting flip in social interaction.

Years ago, to engage - we would ask someone questions.
Now....its make a statement for others to enqire upon.

Personally - i think that's laborious.
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