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[–] 1 point 4 hours ago

See you ssssoon...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    I punctuate because I'm writing. Seems fitting, no?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    I only punctuate when I actually talk

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    Sure, see you there! :)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Yep, accurate - one of the reasons i normally skip punctuation at the end of private messages and either replace it with an smiley, lol or … .

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    [–] 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    That's why I end all of my texts with "bitch"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    It's also possible to not use punctuation (except of commas, of course) to sidestep the issue

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago*

    I used to have a friend that would never use capital letters and full stops. Except when they did, then it was scary.

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  • [–] 7 points 15 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    I don't know if you're being sarcastic?

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  • [–] 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between β€œNo, I’ll do it” and β€œI won’t do it” is just a comma

    Can you elaborate on that? πŸ€”

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 22 hours ago* (4 children)

    That's why you put a tilde at the end of everything.

    See you there~

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    [–] 65 points 1 day ago (22 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (20 children)

    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.

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    [–] 4 points 16 hours ago

    Seems exhausting.

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