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So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's the explicit inclusion of period where 'normally' there wouldn't be one. In texting or DMs it would normally be assumed that one-liners wouldn't contain punctuation except to enhance effect, so the inclusion of the full stop is being read as a 😐 or exaggerated neutrality

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It’s the explicit inclusion of period where ‘normally’ there wouldn’t be one.

    But given the larger history of textual communication, full punctuation is normal. Texting isn't charged per character so it's not like there's a benefit to leaving it out.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Texting isn't charged per character anymore, and only in most places most of the time. And those habits may still persist in other places. My manner of 'speech' is very different in front of a keyboard vs on a phone, for instance.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Texting used to be done with a number pad, so going as far as adding a period used to be a statement. Obviously we all have keyboards now, but I’m sure some of that still translates over to today.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Leaving out unnecessary characters makes you type faster, that's also why people write u instead of you sometimes

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    For those of us who learned to type, typing u instead of you will take longer because of muscle memory. I'm using glide typing on a phone for this and I still had to slow down to type u instead of you.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Well you're used to writing "you" instead of "u" while texting (for the record, I also always write "you"). Similiarly, a lot of people (namely those who grew up with phones), are used to omitting full stops at the end of a message, so if someone does it it must be a conscious decision. See where I'm going with this? (Also it's not like people who use them are immediately sounding passive-aggressive, context matters)

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    dude/ette

    read some fukan poetry OK thanks

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    If poetry text
    Is how you commune with friends
    Passive aggressive.

    edit: fixed the formatting, and my keyboard unironically took my double-tap on space to add periods for me! 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    and my keyboard unironically took my double-tap on space to add periods for me!

    Markdown also permits a trailing backslash to be a linebreak, as an alternative to the two trailing spaces.

    foo\
bar

    yields

    foo
    bar

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    No, baron, I was just pointing out that there are lots of different rules depending on the medium and genre and participants. le sigh

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Does Lemmy need the double space? This isn't Reddit after all, and it's the only Markdown implementation I've seen with that requirement for line breaks.

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