This is scarily accurate… bitch.
Based on the contact pic, is her friend some kind of worn?
No, just a simple frog 🐸
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
LOL
Well done, lol.
🙏✨✨✨🤩🤩🤩✨✨✨🙏
See you there 😎
That’s exactly what I mean
See you there 😉
–> perv
I totally overthink the way I style my text messages with capitalization and punctuation. I don’t think I could ever articulate why a specific message ends up where it does beyond “tone somehow feels better than the other choices”. I definitely don’t have hard rules like this comic, like a period usually does read like the bottom one here but there are still occasions where it will just feel more relaxed/down-to-earth to me.
Probably no one I text with gives a shit.
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.
I’m as Millennial as it gets and I use proper punctuation everywhere. I just looked at some group chats and I’m definitely the exception.
save yourself the hassle and just skip the reply entirely!
I only punctuate when I actually talk
I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?
Woah calm the fuck down and please censor your punctuation for sensitive readers
I punctuate because I’m writing. Seems fitting, no?
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.
Sure, see you there! :)
