▲ 143 ▼ 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 Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world [M] to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 306 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 child) The boomer triple period is even worse. Thank you for the invite, we’d be happy to come over for dinner next Monday! Great... My dad does that a lot, and it's so weird to me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) If he does it when he is excited you might let him know about exclamation marks. Maybe he is trying to be sarcastic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago Nope, just his normal way of talking. Read an article a while back which explained why they probably do it, and while I don't think it's the one I read back than this one does a pretty good job. TLDR: for older generations it's a way of separating thoughts most likely leftover from postcards, whereas for the younger ones it looks like something is being (ominously) left out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) If he does it when he is excited you might let him know about exclamation marks. Maybe he is trying to be sarcastic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago Nope, just his normal way of talking. Read an article a while back which explained why they probably do it, and while I don't think it's the one I read back than this one does a pretty good job. TLDR: for older generations it's a way of separating thoughts most likely leftover from postcards, whereas for the younger ones it looks like something is being (ominously) left out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago Nope, just his normal way of talking. Read an article a while back which explained why they probably do it, and while I don't think it's the one I read back than this one does a pretty good job. TLDR: for older generations it's a way of separating thoughts most likely leftover from postcards, whereas for the younger ones it looks like something is being (ominously) left out. permalink fedilink source parent