i shall never surrender.

[Ken Gargett]

what is wrong with people? i would be very grateful if someone left standing when i fall off the perch would be so kind as to ensure that the headstone ends in a full stop.

 

Spare me! just received this. although the sentence did not come with a full stop so i added one. 

While older texters may consider the full stop an innocent symbol indicating that a sentence has ended, digital natives consider it a triggering form of aggression.  

 

https://nypost.com/2020/08/24/young-people-dont-trust-anyone-who-use-this-punctuation-mark/amp/

[NSXCIGAR]

So you're saying this is all I have to do to have these idiots avoid me? 

[traveller]

Haha of course its a almost 3 year old article. This has been a thing for a long time!

[Baccy]

I CONSIDER THIS TO BE MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN USING A PERIOD. 

[cnov]

1 hour ago, Baccy said:

I CONSIDER THIS TO BE MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN USING A PERIOD. 

You're a touch off topic but my wife can be much worse than aggressive when the painters are in, this is about full stops though.

[ha_banos]

Attention seeking journalism ⚫

[BrightonCorgi]

Screw 'em.  I'll punctuate as close to the Queen's English as I can.

[helix]

Its only because they do not know how to properly apply punctuations. LOL!   Falsely fabricate or insinuate a negative connotation for something just to then be offended by same fabricated fallacy. 🤨

[BigGuns]

So what are, we supposed to do. with punctuation, if a text! is more than one sentence long;  Just have a long rambling: nonsensical thought that requires, some sort of decoding device~  As long as we're at it. misuse of punctuation) in general, DRIVES ME INSANE.

/rant

 

get off my lawn

[JohnS]

I'm proud of you, Ken. We need to put a full stop to this nonsense! 😂

[Bijan]

Ok.

[NSXCIGAR]

Why just punctuation? All modern languages developed in areas with slavery and racism. Time for an entirely new language designed by the Columbia University Department of Social Sciences. They can finally eliminate these pesky words like "man" and "woman". 

[generalnegroni]

I’m a millennial, I’ll translate. The younger generations do understand grammar, just if you’re sending a lot of messages, the return key often does the work of the comma, semicolon, full stop, etc. already. The full stop is superfluous when each message is already a self-contained phrase clearly delineated from the preceding and following messages. In this context, many young people write shorter messages and do not punctuate.

 

If someone who normally does not finish their messages with a full stop begins adding full stops, changing their normal omission, that can denote an additional finality to the message. It implies that their mind is made up, a reply is not expected, and the conversation is over. This is generally received as hostile, since most messaging conversations have no natural beginning or end and can span days or weeks.

 

if you normally punctuate your messages diligently, no one is going to read hostility in your writing style, but if someone who normally doesn’t adds a full-stop, that can suggest confrontation.

[ha_banos]

1 hour ago, generalnegroni said:

I’m a millennial, I’ll translate. The younger generations do understand grammar, just if you’re sending a lot of messages, the return key often does the work of the comma, semicolon, full stop, etc. already. The full stop is superfluous when each message is already a self-contained phrase clearly delineated from the preceding and following messages. In this context, many young people write shorter messages and do not punctuate.

 

If someone who normally does not finish their messages with a full stop begins adding full stops, changing their normal omission, that can denote an additional finality to the message. It implies that their mind is made up, a reply is not expected, and the conversation is over. This is generally received as hostile, since most messaging conversations have no natural beginning or end and can span days or weeks.

 

if you normally punctuate your messages diligently, no one is going to read hostility in your writing style, but if someone who normally doesn’t adds a full-stop, that can suggest confrontation.

Right.

[MrBirdman]

18 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

Why just punctuation? All modern languages developed in areas with slavery and racism. Time for an entirely new language designed by the Columbia University Department of Social Sciences. They can finally eliminate these pesky words like "man" and "woman". 

Hey the Koch brothers just made a big donation to Penn to start a Cranky White Guys studies department - I’m sure I can snag you a visiting professorship if you’re free!

Guys, I’ve never met a Millenial or Gen-Z person who believes any of this nonsense. Just because they can find three idiots does not make it an actual trend. 

[Ken Gargett]

On 3/24/2023 at 2:06 PM, traveller said:

Haha of course its a almost 3 year old article. This has been a thing for a long time!

didn't notice that. clearly my friends are just mastering the internet. 

 

[Ken Gargett]

On 3/24/2023 at 11:37 PM, BrightonCorgi said:

Screw 'em.  I'll punctuate as close to the Queen's English as I can.

thank you. plus one. 

and yes, to those wearing their captain obvious hats, we've discussed the caps before. different thing. 

[Ken Gargett]

18 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

Why just punctuation? All modern languages developed in areas with slavery and racism. Time for an entirely new language designed by the Columbia University Department of Social Sciences. They can finally eliminate these pesky words like "man" and "woman". 

the thing about this is that it is like saying all modern languages developed where one could see sky. go back in history and where didn't have slavery and/or racism. 

[NSXCIGAR]

10 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

the thing about this is that it is like saying all modern languages developed where one could see sky. go back in history and where didn't have slavery and/or racism. 

That's the angle. Nothing is legitimate pre-1965 civil rights movement and all the bad things today are remnants from prior. 

[MrBirdman]

34 minutes ago, NSXCIGAR said:

That's the angle. Nothing is legitimate pre-1965 civil rights movement and all the bad things today are remnants from prior. 

51 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

the thing about this is that it is like saying all modern languages developed where one could see sky. go back in history and where didn't have slavery and/or racism. 

[NSXCIGAR]

4 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

Guys, I’ve never met a Millenial or Gen-Z person who believes any of this nonsense. Just because they can find three idiots does not make it an actual trend.

There's extensive polling that tends to indicate these are widely held opinions among under 40s. I'd accept that they don't necessarily hold the opinions strongly or consider themselves activists but you're going to get lots of Millennial/Z agreeing that "microaggressions" exist, certain speech can be violence and gender is a social construct, etc. When push comes to shove they're going to err on the wrong side of these debates.

You simply cannot go through 12 years of public school since 2000 without getting some of this stuff imparted. 

20 hours ago, generalnegroni said:

younger generations do understand grammar, just if you’re sending a lot of messages, the return key often does the work of the comma, semicolon, full stop, etc. already...

 

20 hours ago, generalnegroni said:

I’m a millennial

We allow your kind here? 

[BoliDan]

On 3/24/2023 at 5:54 PM, JohnS said:

I'm proud of you, Ken. We need to put a full stop to this nonsense! 😂

Yes, this is what Ken is passionate about. Yet, he can't be bothered to capitalize his 'i' on the post and the subject line. Not putting periods is a greater offense, but still a bit of kettle pot dynamic here.

[SirVantes]

25 minutes ago, BoliDan said:

Yes, this is what Ken is passionate about. Yet, he can't be bothered to capitalize his 'i' on the post and the subject line. Not putting periods is a greater offense, but still a bit of kettle pot dynamic here.

But I suspect Ken's non-capitalization is the result of an inability to simultaneously hit 2 keys, rather than a conscious action born of an ideological stance.  Although he may well be protesting the diminution of the individual or humanity in general.

Possibly.

Possibly?

Possibly

Possibly 🙂

[generalnegroni]

5 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

There's extensive polling that tends to indicate these are widely held opinions among under 40s. I'd accept that they don't necessarily hold the opinions strongly or consider themselves activists but you're going to get lots of Millennial/Z agreeing that "microaggressions" exist, certain speech can be violence and gender is a social construct, etc. When push comes to shove they're going to err on the wrong side of these debates.

You simply cannot go through 12 years of public school since 2000 without getting some of this stuff imparted. 

 

We allow your kind here? 

Imagine being scared of a generation…

[MrBirdman]

10 hours ago, NSXCIGAR said:

There's extensive polling that tends to indicate these are widely held opinions among under 40s.

There’s extensive polling about the use of the period? Are you serious?