credburn posted:

That's not polite?

Pookah posted:

He also believed in ghosts because he had a dream where a weird looking ghost made faces at him in bed.

credburn posted:

I had an autistic diagnosis a few years ago and another neurodivergent friend told me that she could tell right away, before my diagnosis, just based on the way I text. She says I have no understanding of "polite texting" as she called it. "For instance," she says. "You always end your texts with a period*."

So what? I says to her. That's not polite?

She says there's a subtext to it, that I clearly don't read, but others do. Which is why nobody else ends their texts or instant messages with a period.

And I said, What? What the gently caress are you talking about? Of course everyone ends their texts with periods. Otherwise there would be chaos and anarchy.

But then I checked and motherfuck my world is blown away. I am the only one out of like a dozen people I message that actually ends messages with a period. If there are multiple sentences in a text, they use punctuation, all but the last period. People think I'm autistic because I'm consistent with punctuation? How did I not even notice people do this? This is polite texting?!

*the big reveal here is that people will use punctuation if it's a question, or if they want to add exclamation points, but if it's a period, everyone just leaves the sentence to hang!!!

credburn posted:

I had an autistic diagnosis a few years ago and another neurodivergent friend told me that she could tell right away, before my diagnosis, just based on the way I text. She says I have no understanding of "polite texting" as she called it. "For instance," she says. "You always end your texts with a period*."

So what? I says to her. That's not polite?

She says there's a subtext to it, that I clearly don't read, but others do. Which is why nobody else ends their texts or instant messages with a period.

And I said, What? What the gently caress are you talking about? Of course everyone ends their texts with periods. Otherwise there would be chaos and anarchy.

But then I checked and motherfuck my world is blown away. I am the only one out of like a dozen people I message that actually ends messages with a period. If there are multiple sentences in a text, they use punctuation, all but the last period. People think I'm autistic because I'm consistent with punctuation? How did I not even notice people do this? This is polite texting?!

*the big reveal here is that people will use punctuation if it's a question, or if they want to add exclamation points, but if it's a period, everyone just leaves the sentence to hang!!!

EasilyConfused posted:

I can't believe I just found out your friend reads way too much into whether someone uses a period on the last sentence or not.

Gaius Marius posted:

EasilyConfused posted:

I can't believe I just found out your friend reads way too much into whether someone uses a period on the last sentence or not.

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Or maybe you don't read enough into things.

EasilyConfused posted:

FTFY

christmas boots posted:

Yeah, I think it's a context thing. I don't think I'd normally think too much about the period at the end of a sentence.

But I mean, say I texted someone to ask how they were doing, I think I might interpret "fine" differently from "fine."

but that would depend on the rest of the conversation, how well I knew the person, etc. And I'd probably ask if I thought they were just being an rear end in a top hat about it.


E: I see that I ended my post here with a '.', I think I do that more often if I'm posting from my computer. For some reason it feel like a lot more effort to do it on the phone so I rarely bother.

FreudianSlippers posted:

I put a period on the end of my texts because I want to come of as angry.

Gaius Marius posted:

You just double tap space.

credburn posted:

I had an autistic diagnosis a few years ago and another neurodivergent friend told me that she could tell right away, before my diagnosis, just based on the way I text. She says I have no understanding of "polite texting" as she called it. "For instance," she says. "You always end your texts with a period*."

So what? I says to her. That's not polite?

She says there's a subtext to it, that I clearly don't read, but others do. Which is why nobody else ends their texts or instant messages with a period.

And I said, What? What the gently caress are you talking about? Of course everyone ends their texts with periods. Otherwise there would be chaos and anarchy.

But then I checked and motherfuck my world is blown away. I am the only one out of like a dozen people I message that actually ends messages with a period. If there are multiple sentences in a text, they use punctuation, all but the last period. People think I'm autistic because I'm consistent with punctuation? How did I not even notice people do this? This is polite texting?!

*the big reveal here is that people will use punctuation if it's a question, or if they want to add exclamation points, but if it's a period, everyone just leaves the sentence to hang!!!

quote:

Martin: "Do you still want to meet tonight?"

Frank: »No. Sorry. «

Martin: "A little pissed off or what?"

Frank: "Nope."

Martin: »Why did the punctuation marks (cry of laugh smiley)«

This is an exchange between two teenagers on WhatsApp. And it's a reaction you get regularly - especially from younger people - if you write a full stop at the end of a message on sms, Messenger or WhatsApp. The dot is on its way out of our text messages. It has been outcompeted by other characters and emojis and is disappearing completely as a closing character.

Recently, Birgitte Darger, chairwoman of the Danish Teachers' Association's high school and high school section, was told by her 21-year-old son that he took it very seriously and almost as if she was scolding when she put an end to a message to him.

Failed Imagineer posted:

It's Mx. or nothing

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Nothing is my preference. Why would anyone ever need to mention my name in an e-mail?

Failed Imagineer posted:

I just pretend I'm the lil fairy from Zelda

credburn posted:

Carthag Tuek posted:

i write on a Danish genealogy forum & we all do a whole "Hi [name] blah blah blah Best, [name]" because everyone is 80 years old lol

(the "hi" is the informal part)

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I used to post on the old Snopes.com forums (because I'm a pedantic shitlord who embodies that xkcd "someone is wrong on the internet" comic) and most of the posters there used to sign all their posts. WE CAN SEE YOUR USERNAME ALREADY

FreudianSlippers posted:

I put a period on the end of my texts because I want to come of as angry.