this is why I like tildes. “see you there~” is cute and not overly excited sounding.
I’ve never seen a tilde used that way before, but if I ever saw that, I would think they have worms or something. Or it’s a Gen-Z version of the ellipses… Like that which I’ve heard youngsters mock Gen-X for using ellipses…
really? I’m a millennial and my girlfriend used it in like 2009, that’s where I picked it up lol.
This is why we millennials add lol to everything I swear it. I’ve also evolved and started adding :). I hate sending work emails because I can’t do either thing, so I’m just the bottom frame gal in my mind.
Millennial here. I used to think of emojis as unprofessional, but then my current workplace started including them (and cringey slang) in important messages.
So, I readjusted my expectations. Limited emoji use = professional.
Then last year, I used the angry face 😠 along with a message. That seemed to concern people?
So now I’m wondering if “happy” emojis are allowed professionally, but negative ones aren’t (just as negative emotion must be hidden in all other aspects of society, I guess?)
I don’t know. There are no written rules. I’d rather we all go back to just using proper grammar and full sentences like we used to for work communications. I’m both too autistic and too old for this trendy shit.
That’s correct, you are only allowed to use cutesy or positive emojis. Which is why I strive to only use the most obscure
It really depends on your who your workers are, but I absolutely don’t use emojies in work emails. I do use them in teams messages though.
Emails are for conversations I want documented. Chat messages are the equivalent of a desk conversation.
Also, yeah, angry emojies are still taboo at any type of work chat for me. Can’t be seen as angry at the office.
As a an anxious millennial I add: cool, 😅, 😆, 😊, XD or 😬. All inappropriately placed.
Gen X here. I do all of that. :)
My niece, a younger millennial, adds haha to the end of every text. I’m not a fan.
save yourself the hassle and just skip the reply entirely!
I punctuate because I’m writing. Seems fitting, no?
I had someone get mad at me once because I ended an otherwise innocuous text with a period. I was like, it doesn’t mean anything. I was going to write another sentence, but then didn’t. Stop imagining secret meanings.
I think they were my worst ex partner, come to think of it.
That was very much a milennial thing about 15 years ago. I didn’t get it at all, adding a period was somehow like a sign of passive aggressiveness or something.
Thank goodness that seems to have faded away.
Thank goodness that seems to have faded away.
What the fuck did you just fucking punctuate at me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills!
U wot m8
Jesus, thank you, civilized conversation!
Well done, lol.
LOL
🙏✨✨✨🤩🤩🤩✨✨✨🙏
definitely not just a millennial thing, I’ve had gen Z friends call me out on using proper punctuation in online messages lol
Really? Guess some are carrying it forward. Nonetheless, seems spotty. It’s not something I have had to deal with in a long time.
It’s just a way people indicate tone. Online communication is developing its own grammar and punctuation rules to get around the shortcomings of written language to succinctly express emotion/intent
Written language is evolving, the period being the pointed end to a sentence may lead to a new punctuation mark as the period only becomes “ok” as a separator.
Or maybe we go full comma, that would be weird, I think, yeah,
This is possible but doesn’t take into account that the likely reason the period went out of fashion as a sentence terminator is that the need for having a terminator in the first place has diminished.
The need has absolutely not diminished, in fact in written language it’s more important than ever.
I just went through 4 years of university as an elder millenial, the youngins still feel this way and I honestly thought it was a Gen Z thing. I’d never encountered the punctuation issue before I decided to go to school again
It’s still a thing. The new rule is: never end a paragraph with a full stop, otherwise it’s perceived as overly formal or cold. You can still use them within paragraphs, it’s only the very end of a paragraph you omit it
At least, that’s the rule my autistic ass has reverse-engineered. Also, lol cannot have any punctuation immediately after it like “lol.”, otherwise it comes across as flat and half-hearted. You need to restructure your whole sentence if that happens
Interesting, I haven’t come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you’re sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn’t add anything functionally.
Maybe an older millennial thing but I remember the big thing being “we have full keyboards now so no more t9 speak”. That included using proper punctuation.
That being said, as an anxious person I still end almost every text with an ! so people don’t think I am upset.
I’m an older millennial and I basically refused to text more than a three-word sentence at a time up until, oh, probably 10 years ago because I hated typing on my phone. I doubt I used punctuation at all.
Has it? I’m really asking. The only one I text with regularly is my son, and I taught him to use punctuation, and he knows I prefer it.
AFAIK. My kids are texting fools. I asked, it’s not a thing. However, getting upset about any manufactured slight due to punctuation is a thing.
Yeah I was pretty taken aback when someone first told me about this. She got mad that I ended a text with a period. I was like “what, that’s just proper punctuation.” And then she got even madder because she thought I was being a grammar snob. I was so fucking confused.
Later she said that it’s like saying “period.” at the end of a sentence, and accused me of knowing that and only pretending not to. But like, if I wanted to sentence to read “period” at the end, I would have typed the word “period.”
I got really insecure and hypervigilant about ending texts with periods after that. It took me years to get over that and even now I still get anxious about sending texts with periods in them…
Ok but if this wasn’t partially already inside everybody’s head, why doesn’t everybody write emails like the bottom one?
People use the top one for a reason.
I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?
Woah calm the fuck down and please censor your punctuation for sensitive readers
Holy shit, you don’t have to be so aggressive about it… (/S+lol)
That’s why I end all of my texts with “bitch”
See you there, bitch!
😁🔪
🥳 🔥
That’s why you put a tilde at the end of everything.
See you there~
Bitch~
See you there…
That just seems vaguely threatening.
That gives off either horny or lovey-dovey vibes, depending on how far your mind’s in the gutter.
That why do don’t use punctuation anything invented after the spaces or blanks is uselessness
I know this is comic but if I received a “SEE YOU THERE” text with all caps I would be taken aback. They are shouting at me.
There’s a sketch about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
Is that why there seems to be hardly any punctuation left? I see this over and over again in the posted screenshots and comments here, and it drives me absolutely crazy. Punctuation serves a purpose, but most importantly, it makes the crap you ejaculate into the ether easier to read. This text was written by an autistic old man.
Sure, see you there! :)
just to be safe i never use any punctuation at all that way there is no risk of any misunderstanding it has never caused me any problems
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic?
I’ll give you a hint: it was painfully hard for me to resist capitalizing the “I”.
I wanted to write it in a way that actually would be misunderstood due to lack of punctuation, but it was too much of a cognitive load. In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma. But in English it’s not that easy.
In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma
Can you elaborate on that? 🤔
Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”
In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.
But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.
The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.
*I dont know if youre being sarcastic
I only punctuate when I actually talk
