See you ssssoon…
I punctuate because I’m writing. Seems fitting, no?
I only punctuate when I actually talk
I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?
Holy shit, you don’t have to be so aggressive about it… (/S+lol)
Woah calm the fuck down and please censor your punctuation for sensitive readers
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.
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.
Gen X here. I do all of that. :)
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.
That’s correct, you are only allowed to use cutesy or positive emojis. Which is why I strive to only use the most obscure
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.
As a an anxious millennial I add: cool, 😅, 😆, 😊, XD or 😬. All inappropriately placed.
My niece, a younger millennial, adds haha to the end of every text. I’m not a fan.
Sure, see you there! :)
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 … .
It’s somehow funny that you decided to end this sentence with a dot which otherwise would’ve ended with three dots :D
There’s a sketch about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
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.
It’s also possible to not use punctuation (except of commas, of course) to sidestep the issue
That’s why I end all of my texts with “bitch”
See you there, bitch!
😁🔪
🥳 🔥
I used to have a friend that would never use capital letters and full stops. Except when they are trying to be serious, then it gets scary.
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.
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
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic?
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.
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
Can you elaborate on that? 🤔
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.
*I dont know if youre being sarcastic
