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😕
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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. 😂
But what you said was really intersting coz i use that emoji a lot . And to me its a really positive "YEAH 👍" type expression. But tjen it may have something to do with my Aussie culture 🤷
@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 .
