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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 .

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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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bowman81 · M
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.

If its longer than 3 sentences - its TL:DR🤷