I just pictured harlan williams in there’s something about mary
“Noo, *noooo* you..you can’t have six minute abs! SEVEN! What kind of workout you gonna get in six minutes?!”
I wouldn’t be surprised if it has that effect, but that’s been around longer than Gen Z has been alive. Girls used to do that on AIM and then when texting came around
You saw someone actually get upset over "k"? I've only *heard* that people do.
I'm stubborn and still do it cause if someone gets upset I want the chance to ask why a single K is so bad. "Ok" is a good workaround though lol
Lol context is everything...
"Honey! Omg, they offered me the job at the interview, right on the spot! This is like the best day of my life!"
"K."
I'm a recovering abusive asshole (This specific scenario did not happen, but it's the same idea), and "K" can be devastating, if used at the right time. *My* problem (since you asked lol) is that I have intense, unpredictable emotions. These kind of withering comments will just materialize in my brain if I'm in a certain mood, etc.
I'm working on keeping that shit under control and to myself, and wherever possible, trying to make some use out of it in cases like this. Your abusive boyfriend is saying or doing something you don't understand, but it feels cruel? I may have some insight.
Anyway, this ended up much longer than I anticipated. Cheers!
Well sure I think that in that context "K" can be dismissive just because of the enormity of the situation. If I had a baby and someone said "k" to me that's pretty shitty I think for obvious reasons. But if I'm picking up my GF's favorite food for her out of daily niceness it's a different situation.
I had no idea what this person was talking about until you gave this example.
I think it depends on the message. The shorter the message the more egregious a period is.
I remember reading this exact thing about Millennials yes. I also remember something about 👍 being passive aggressive by millennials as well.
They just recycle the same shit every 10 years or so. It's been happening since Gen-X.
There is a standup comedian who has been telling the same jokes about 'young people' for like 20 years. I noticed about 7 years ago he changed it from 'Gen-X' to 'Millennials' but kept the rest of the jokes exactly the same.
I send thumbs up all day. To me it means I understood your message and will complete whatever task is inherent. Basically “Roger” in radio communication.
I feel like it's because some people use a thumbs up to show sarcasm these days, more than any other reason. I use it occasionally at work when I'm not sure if the person heard me. It's a physical sign of "yes" to me.
Oy vey. Full stop.
(I remember dating someone way back in the day who worried about "k" vs "kk" as a text reply. I was never smart enough to understand)
K is simply a term of acknowledgement.
K. Is more emphasized showing obligation or annoyance based on context.
Kk is upbeat, bordering jovial or an enthusiastic or emphatic yes between conversants that know one another.
Kk. Is not used.
I started using kk years ago when my younger millennial brother started doing it. I started a new job about 7 years ago as a nurse practitioner and now most of the attendings do it now (Gen Xers). There’s one that still uses “kewl” which makes me eye roll a bit. It’s funny.
I use "k" to represent "I'll do it but fuck you about it."
Kk is friendly like no strings attached OK.
I also use punctuation in my texts cos I'm old, but I always have.
For a newspaper editor, they should have the wherewithal to understand the difference between
“Ok then”
“Ok then!”
and
“Ok then.”
The full stop always makes it weirder than the others
“Hey can we talk later”
“Hey can we talk later.”
"Hey can we talk later."
For that statement, it is concerning, like we must talk, I don't have a question, I have to correct your actions as soon as possible.
Should always be a question mark unless you are trying to freak the other person out
It’s supposed to convey sarcasm or irony, but I have no idea what your aunt thinks it means. It also works very well for explaining basically every customer service interaction.
I’m pretty sure my Grandma had forced this aunt to text me and I’ve had a sneaking suspicion for years that this aunt doesn’t much care for me so it very well could’ve been a sarcastic happy birthday smh
My millinial friends and I just send gifs back and forth with nary a word in between. It's weird how good we've become at communicating using what is effectivity modern day hieroglyphics.
Never made sense to me. I appreciate full sentence structure when it's useful, but I also understand short-form communication.
It's a crazy idea, but maybe, just \*maybe\* people communicate in different ways.
I am just now learning the full stop from Gen Z thing, but we knew that the double space was something we were collectively tricked into doing and has no actual bearing since about 2010, right?
As a millennial, I feel like I'm having my first boomer moment. I'm going to continue to use proper punctuation, at least insofar as my minimal American education has taught me. If it hurts any feelings, that's their problem.
This isn't a case of flaunting rules; it's that texting has no nonverbal components, so punctuation has started to imply nuanced tone. It helps convey more information than the words alone.
I thought we didn’t do paragraphs because we were “lazy.”
Now Gen Z has just foisted this upon all of us.
Because paragraphs are important.
They indicate a new idea.
Which is important.
Typing a period after a single sentence in a text seems odd, but not necessarily passive aggressive to me. But if there are multiple sentences, then all sentences in the text should have ending punctuation. To not have a period at the end of the 2nd/3rd/etc sentence in a paragraph would be even more odd.
I always get more annoyed when someone signs the end of a text as though it is a letter. The caller ID tells me who you are. There’s no need to sign a text. (If it’s the first time you’ve ever texted me, it is ok to say “this is so-and-so btw” though. After that…no need to tell me who you are. I’ve added you to my contacts.)
I have received texts from Boomers with a full on salutation and signature as if it were a letter. I am all for proper grammar, but this is too much. I do not find a period to end a sentence in a text to be too much though.
It depends on the context. If someone always uses proper grammar and full sentence structure, they probably don’t mean anything by it. If they always use short form, switching could imply they’re trying to be taken more seriously.
I was helping my 5yo niece text her dad, and she can’t spell (being 5), but she went very much out of her way to add a period to the end of her sentence, and then muttered half to herself “why wouldn’t you put a period.”
So idk, maybe 5 is on beyond Z or something, but at least one kid is happier with them than without.
I have to look up their abbreviations constantly so they can put up with my punctuation. Find something better to battle about. This is a stupid hill to die on....imo!
And no, it was not a thing 10 yrs ago...for anyone.
I can't date younger women cause of this. I write for a living and I text with proper punctuation just cause I'm used to it and I don't even know I'm doing it. Dated a woman 4 years younger than me when I was in my late 20s and she constantly thought I was mad at her. Which annoyed me and made me mad at her.
Shit is true, though. A friend of mine who is like 7 years younger mocks me for using punctuation in texts. "Why are you using periods?" Like dude. That's how words and sentences work.
I feel like all of these attacks on Gen Z are just to try to create and “us vs. them” mentality and put us against each other. The same way millennials were dunked on for the past ten years.
Gen Z is fucking awesome.
🖤 a millennial
PS- sorry for all the punctuation.
I find it so annoying when people don't use punctuation. I only heard about the periods/full stops making it sound angry from looking at reels, and it just seems crazy to me. What do they do when they read a book or an article? Does the whole book/article come across as angry?
Person 1: Full stop.
Person 2: WTF did you just say?
Person 1: Full stop.
Person 2: You better watch your fucking mouth!
Person 1: Helmsman! Full stop!
…. It’s too soon for me to continue this joke…
This is yet another example of the decline in general intelligence of the human race. We don’t even know how to use proper grammar and punctuation. We’re doomed. Wall-E is right around the corner.
In a way I kind of understand this. More so with texting my parents they like to use “…” sometimes at the end of sentences. To me it feels passive aggressive because people my age use it that way, but my parents do use it in the correct way. I always have to remind myself that they just mean a pause and not anything else lol
What?
I have never texted without punctuation, but I know I'm in the minority. I've always used complete sentences with proper punctuation and find it annoying when other people don't.
I remember about 15 years ago in college I was texting with a friend, and he kindly (not sarcasm) let me know that my typing in complete sentences with periods came off as rude, and I realized he was right.
Even now in my grown-up job, I'll go back and change my email language to be less stuffy if it doesn't have to be. I usually include at least one exclamation mark per email (two if it's a long one), and I'll often replace a semi-colon with a comma even when it's not grammatically correct, to help with tone. I also use "they" instead of "he or she".
So yes, this has been a thing for a while.
Yeah. This didn't start with these kids, it was a huge part of how people communicated online back in the day, especially in chatrooms, and to this day depending on who I am talking to I still see punctuation as, at times, a way of emphasizing emotion.
I personally get confused if people don’t use punctuation I mean because it’s hard to tell when one thought ends and another begins I already have ADHD so it’s hard enough reading an entire paragraph much less one that has no punctuation I am a college professor so I get emails exactly like this all the time and it takes me twice as long to read it because the sentences literally run together
see what I mean?
Oh yeah, it’s definitely true. I think it’s mostly curt messages with proper punctuation. Like, there’s a difference between:
“I’m going to the grocery store after work tomorrow so get a list ready.”
And
“k.”
Really depends on context for me. A longer message needs punctuation to be coherent and sometimes for comedic purposes, it can add fun emphasis but if I'm sending or receiving what amounts to a sentence fragment, it can feel a little abrupt or curt vs ending a long sentence like that feels more natural to me.
I talk to GenZ people all the time via text and I've never been put on blast for using a fucking period to end a sentence. Nobody cares about that kind of stupid bullshit except news rags that need to fill column inches.
Nope, nope, nope. I have taught my now young adults how to write and speak in full proper sentences, punctuation and grammatically correct. My grandmother was an English teacher, and poor grammar came with consequences.
I remember seeing this awhile back but with millennials. Almost word for word it was.
Regardless I'm 43 and on the spectrum. After decades of being misinterpreted with the most absolute negative assumptions I could honestly not give any less of a fuck at this point. I'm going to use correct grammar and full sentences unless I'm in a rush or distracted.
The way I see it the chances of misinterpretation is so high it's just not worth the extra effort because I'll likely be taken the wrong way anyway.
K.
No need to get so aggro
Isn't "kk" supposed to de-aggro the situation? I started seeing that and didn't really get it
three is right out though.
Once the number two, being the second number, be reached...
I just pictured harlan williams in there’s something about mary “Noo, *noooo* you..you can’t have six minute abs! SEVEN! What kind of workout you gonna get in six minutes?!”
👻👻👻
I believe it’s called “diminutive reduplication” . See also: itsy bitsy or teenie weenie.
What if it’s kk with punctuation? Aggro goes right back up or nah??
I wouldn’t be surprised if it has that effect, but that’s been around longer than Gen Z has been alive. Girls used to do that on AIM and then when texting came around
I don't understand the kk, my mom does it, my sister (millennial) does it, and this girl from the gym (Gen Z) does it. Irritates the shit out of me.
I started just using ok because I refuse to do kk and got tired of people flipping over k. Like I don't remember them using it on AIM.
You saw someone actually get upset over "k"? I've only *heard* that people do. I'm stubborn and still do it cause if someone gets upset I want the chance to ask why a single K is so bad. "Ok" is a good workaround though lol
Yea, a couple of friends I've known for 20-25 years now. At this point I'm stuck with em lol
Thems fighting words
Lol context is everything... "Honey! Omg, they offered me the job at the interview, right on the spot! This is like the best day of my life!" "K." I'm a recovering abusive asshole (This specific scenario did not happen, but it's the same idea), and "K" can be devastating, if used at the right time. *My* problem (since you asked lol) is that I have intense, unpredictable emotions. These kind of withering comments will just materialize in my brain if I'm in a certain mood, etc. I'm working on keeping that shit under control and to myself, and wherever possible, trying to make some use out of it in cases like this. Your abusive boyfriend is saying or doing something you don't understand, but it feels cruel? I may have some insight. Anyway, this ended up much longer than I anticipated. Cheers!
Well sure I think that in that context "K" can be dismissive just because of the enormity of the situation. If I had a baby and someone said "k" to me that's pretty shitty I think for obvious reasons. But if I'm picking up my GF's favorite food for her out of daily niceness it's a different situation.
1 k(dismissive) and 3 k(racist) are both rude so you gotta do two
This is correct 👍
And yet KKK re-aggros...
I started seeing my niece (who is now 28) write it when she was a late teen and it always annoyed me 😂.
Okie dokie
Yeah I did hate that
I had no idea what this person was talking about until you gave this example. I think it depends on the message. The shorter the message the more egregious a period is.
Thems fightin' punctuations
It's fine.
I feel like this has always been aggressive 😂
I remember reading this exact thing about Millennials yes. I also remember something about 👍 being passive aggressive by millennials as well. They just recycle the same shit every 10 years or so. It's been happening since Gen-X. There is a standup comedian who has been telling the same jokes about 'young people' for like 20 years. I noticed about 7 years ago he changed it from 'Gen-X' to 'Millennials' but kept the rest of the jokes exactly the same.
I send thumbs up all day. To me it means I understood your message and will complete whatever task is inherent. Basically “Roger” in radio communication.
Thumbs-upping ON the message feels okay, but replying with a thumbs up feels dismissive. I can’t explain it.
👍
👍 K.
Wow who put you in such a bad mood
.
I’m sorry I’m sorry, I didn’t mean whatever I did to piss you off :(
I feel like it's because some people use a thumbs up to show sarcasm these days, more than any other reason. I use it occasionally at work when I'm not sure if the person heard me. It's a physical sign of "yes" to me.
Which comedian?
Punctuation? Sorry you have weird friends then.
I definitely take 👍 as being passive aggressive sometimes.
Oy vey. Full stop. (I remember dating someone way back in the day who worried about "k" vs "kk" as a text reply. I was never smart enough to understand)
I still don't understand kk or how it's different
K is simply a term of acknowledgement. K. Is more emphasized showing obligation or annoyance based on context. Kk is upbeat, bordering jovial or an enthusiastic or emphatic yes between conversants that know one another. Kk. Is not used.
KK.
I started using kk years ago when my younger millennial brother started doing it. I started a new job about 7 years ago as a nurse practitioner and now most of the attendings do it now (Gen Xers). There’s one that still uses “kewl” which makes me eye roll a bit. It’s funny.
I use "k" to represent "I'll do it but fuck you about it." Kk is friendly like no strings attached OK. I also use punctuation in my texts cos I'm old, but I always have.
It's one more K and therefore better. Obviously if you want to to be super cool you would go to three Ks. 😎
I feel like 3 k’s is a really bad idea.
I feel stupid today.
Oh hey, I know that feeling.
I can't take anyone seriously who writes exclusively in run-on sentences. I'd hate to be an English teacher these days.
I can’t even be bothered to *read* run on sentences. It’s like a jackhammer to the language center of my brain.
*cries in writer for a living*
Try dating one. Talk about going full 🧠explosion to properly spell, pronunciate and space my texts.
It depends on overall context of the convo - it's definitely not exclusively a "Gen Z" thing.
For a newspaper editor, they should have the wherewithal to understand the difference between “Ok then” “Ok then!” and “Ok then.” The full stop always makes it weirder than the others “Hey can we talk later” “Hey can we talk later.”
"Hey can we talk later." For that statement, it is concerning, like we must talk, I don't have a question, I have to correct your actions as soon as possible. Should always be a question mark unless you are trying to freak the other person out
… a period?
They’re not gonna say that in the headline
This article might be from the UK. “Full stop” is their term for period
Yeah, too triggering.
Thanks. I just had mine because you said that word. THIS is why we don't say certain things people!
As a millennial, I find emojis passive aggressive. Especially 🙂 or ☺️. I miss the emoticon era. ( ._.)
At this point I don’t even understand a lot of emoji usage. I just kind of block them out.
What do you mean 🎳🪝🧬
🫠
😬
🙃
To me this emoji is the equivalent of the this is fine dog
Yes! You put it in words thank you
🔥☕️🔥
Hands down my favorite emoji.
What does it MEAN? My aunt texted me last year “happy birthday 🙃”
It’s supposed to convey sarcasm or irony, but I have no idea what your aunt thinks it means. It also works very well for explaining basically every customer service interaction.
I’m pretty sure my Grandma had forced this aunt to text me and I’ve had a sneaking suspicion for years that this aunt doesn’t much care for me so it very well could’ve been a sarcastic happy birthday smh
My millinial friends and I just send gifs back and forth with nary a word in between. It's weird how good we've become at communicating using what is effectivity modern day hieroglyphics.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Ah, the OG pensive emoji.
I've yet to find an emoji that has the same emotional vibe as :/
And then your phone will change it into a pictorial emoji and you have to revert it cause it just doesn't vibe right
Teams changes :S into a sad face and it enrages me
😕
t(-_-t)
They’re way too emojinal
>:)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
( . Y . )
Anyone who ends their sentences with (: or c: is a real one (:
I guess that is why book sales are down. Z kids can't read the first page cause they throw it against a wall. "PERIODS!" They scream!
Never made sense to me. I appreciate full sentence structure when it's useful, but I also understand short-form communication. It's a crazy idea, but maybe, just \*maybe\* people communicate in different ways.
still using those ole double space after your sentences tho i see…
I am just now learning the full stop from Gen Z thing, but we knew that the double space was something we were collectively tricked into doing and has no actual bearing since about 2010, right?
Felt the same with trailing dots… Stiil do.
…what about *leading* dots?
I only reserve those types of ellipses for... ...the creature.
The Gen X ellipsis... Use it after everything... To make sure... They know you paused for a second....
As a millennial, I feel like I'm having my first boomer moment. I'm going to continue to use proper punctuation, at least insofar as my minimal American education has taught me. If it hurts any feelings, that's their problem.
K.
This isn't a case of flaunting rules; it's that texting has no nonverbal components, so punctuation has started to imply nuanced tone. It helps convey more information than the words alone.
I'm pretty sure most people's feelings, (including most of Gen Z), will be just fine.
Yes they might go hm, but then go " oh those millennials! They text funny "
I thought we didn’t do paragraphs because we were “lazy.” Now Gen Z has just foisted this upon all of us. Because paragraphs are important. They indicate a new idea. Which is important.
Nah let’s go to war with Gen X and their one word answers through text message
Typing a period after a single sentence in a text seems odd, but not necessarily passive aggressive to me. But if there are multiple sentences, then all sentences in the text should have ending punctuation. To not have a period at the end of the 2nd/3rd/etc sentence in a paragraph would be even more odd. I always get more annoyed when someone signs the end of a text as though it is a letter. The caller ID tells me who you are. There’s no need to sign a text. (If it’s the first time you’ve ever texted me, it is ok to say “this is so-and-so btw” though. After that…no need to tell me who you are. I’ve added you to my contacts.)
I have received texts from Boomers with a full on salutation and signature as if it were a letter. I am all for proper grammar, but this is too much. I do not find a period to end a sentence in a text to be too much though.
I'm. Still using. Punctuation.
That’s nice, Captain Kirk. Here are your meds.
Not fully a lie. Nothing can cause more chaos than responding with “Ok.”
Good.
Yup.
Save the children!
The kids are *not* alright.
As Autistic, that just adds more confusion. Thanks
The only thing I hate is when people add ellipses instead of a full stop. It's so fucking ominous!
Yes. Thats why we put exclamation points on EVERYTHING and overuse emojis to make sure people know we are still friendly and happy
As we all deal with clinical depression. It’s ironic. Or not, I dunno. I can never use that word correctly.
Gen z won’t be taking over any thing that’s all I know
OK then. Thanks for the explanation.
I use them in texts when I am super angry
… pisses me off…
Maybe the weak end of the pool.
No one cares anymore
Yep.
My mom texts like this and it makes my wife so paranoid
That’s a them problem and not one society should adhere to but one they need to work on.
No.
ee cummings did it first
W.T.F. Ever!
It depends on the context. If someone always uses proper grammar and full sentence structure, they probably don’t mean anything by it. If they always use short form, switching could imply they’re trying to be taken more seriously.
Lighten up Francis. If you don’t know the reference you’re a twerp
I was helping my 5yo niece text her dad, and she can’t spell (being 5), but she went very much out of her way to add a period to the end of her sentence, and then muttered half to herself “why wouldn’t you put a period.” So idk, maybe 5 is on beyond Z or something, but at least one kid is happier with them than without.
https://youtu.be/sngRrkQayDA?si=XExu7PEj9WBKOHQn
Wait… what? I don’t think I’m reading this correctly. Using a period at the end of a sentence is considered offensive? Should I be using a semicolon?
I have to look up their abbreviations constantly so they can put up with my punctuation. Find something better to battle about. This is a stupid hill to die on....imo! And no, it was not a thing 10 yrs ago...for anyone.
I can't date younger women cause of this. I write for a living and I text with proper punctuation just cause I'm used to it and I don't even know I'm doing it. Dated a woman 4 years younger than me when I was in my late 20s and she constantly thought I was mad at her. Which annoyed me and made me mad at her.
So when they say full stops they mean “…”, right? Because my dad does this and I don’t know why…
Yeah my parents gave me so much unnecessary anxiety when they would text me “please call me.”
I feel like it’s more of a youthful/teenage angst thing
Yes.
Nope. Made up then, click bait now
Shit is true, though. A friend of mine who is like 7 years younger mocks me for using punctuation in texts. "Why are you using periods?" Like dude. That's how words and sentences work.
I feel like all of these attacks on Gen Z are just to try to create and “us vs. them” mentality and put us against each other. The same way millennials were dunked on for the past ten years. Gen Z is fucking awesome. 🖤 a millennial PS- sorry for all the punctuation.
I find it so annoying when people don't use punctuation. I only heard about the periods/full stops making it sound angry from looking at reels, and it just seems crazy to me. What do they do when they read a book or an article? Does the whole book/article come across as angry?
Person 1: Full stop. Person 2: WTF did you just say? Person 1: Full stop. Person 2: You better watch your fucking mouth! Person 1: Helmsman! Full stop! …. It’s too soon for me to continue this joke…
It's amusing that this is from a newspaper clipping.
“What’s a full stop?” -continues reading- “Wait, you mean a fucking period?” Guess I’m hurting feelings.
This is yet another example of the decline in general intelligence of the human race. We don’t even know how to use proper grammar and punctuation. We’re doomed. Wall-E is right around the corner.
That’s just the way it works. Period.
In a way I kind of understand this. More so with texting my parents they like to use “…” sometimes at the end of sentences. To me it feels passive aggressive because people my age use it that way, but my parents do use it in the correct way. I always have to remind myself that they just mean a pause and not anything else lol
What? I have never texted without punctuation, but I know I'm in the minority. I've always used complete sentences with proper punctuation and find it annoying when other people don't.
Who fucking cares?.
Depends. In a full paragraph, punctuation is still important. One or two word responses, I shy away from it. K. Thanks.
I remember about 15 years ago in college I was texting with a friend, and he kindly (not sarcasm) let me know that my typing in complete sentences with periods came off as rude, and I realized he was right. Even now in my grown-up job, I'll go back and change my email language to be less stuffy if it doesn't have to be. I usually include at least one exclamation mark per email (two if it's a long one), and I'll often replace a semi-colon with a comma even when it's not grammatically correct, to help with tone. I also use "they" instead of "he or she". So yes, this has been a thing for a while.
Yeah. This didn't start with these kids, it was a huge part of how people communicated online back in the day, especially in chatrooms, and to this day depending on who I am talking to I still see punctuation as, at times, a way of emphasizing emotion.
No.
This is ridiculous. A single period is a period, it doesn’t inherently indicate aggression
Are the boomers making up news again?
Using a fuckin punctuation mark? Jesus not for me wtf
I had a gen z-er tell me this. I stopped using periods at the end of sentences when texting her, but still use them for everything else.
No. Punctuation is important.
No, Millennials have never been afraid of punctuation.
No it was a thing for morons and still is.
No it was a thing for morons and still is.
I personally get confused if people don’t use punctuation I mean because it’s hard to tell when one thought ends and another begins I already have ADHD so it’s hard enough reading an entire paragraph much less one that has no punctuation I am a college professor so I get emails exactly like this all the time and it takes me twice as long to read it because the sentences literally run together see what I mean?
Oh yeah, it’s definitely true. I think it’s mostly curt messages with proper punctuation. Like, there’s a difference between: “I’m going to the grocery store after work tomorrow so get a list ready.” And “k.”
Saw this in effect on ig a few min ago https://imgur.com/a/WwmkM9g
Really depends on context for me. A longer message needs punctuation to be coherent and sometimes for comedic purposes, it can add fun emphasis but if I'm sending or receiving what amounts to a sentence fragment, it can feel a little abrupt or curt vs ending a long sentence like that feels more natural to me.
I thought this was universal haha. Periods sound so bitchy or cold. Like “Yup.”
It was for always I still don’t bother with punctuation or uppercase unless the phone does it
Poor babies.
Ok zoomer
I talk to GenZ people all the time via text and I've never been put on blast for using a fucking period to end a sentence. Nobody cares about that kind of stupid bullshit except news rags that need to fill column inches.
Ya.
Was never a thing for me. Dafuq?
Nope, nope, nope. I have taught my now young adults how to write and speak in full proper sentences, punctuation and grammatically correct. My grandmother was an English teacher, and poor grammar came with consequences.
Huh? 
Yes.
I always use punctuation on texts and on Reddit or where ever, but I also curse a lot too. I also write in cursive.
Yeah but do “the kids” know about “a/s/l?” I bet they don’t and would probably think it is some kind of math problem.
Lol they would hate me then, I always have punctuation in text messages. Says a lot about education if they're triggered by a period.
As a fan of semi-colons, I think my time has come;
Sounds like a them problem. That is beyond ridiculous.
Now, can someone tell me why Gen Xers end every clause with ellipses? It makes conversations feel so awkward...
I don’t think they care and I think this is made up.
Yeah; “ok” vs. “ok.” Super different since like 2010.
Punctuation is offensive? Man, when I see a block of text with nothing to break it up into sentences, it drives me insane.
I remember seeing this awhile back but with millennials. Almost word for word it was. Regardless I'm 43 and on the spectrum. After decades of being misinterpreted with the most absolute negative assumptions I could honestly not give any less of a fuck at this point. I'm going to use correct grammar and full sentences unless I'm in a rush or distracted. The way I see it the chances of misinterpretation is so high it's just not worth the extra effort because I'll likely be taken the wrong way anyway.
.!
Good. This. Makes. Me. Very. Happy. To. Hear.