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

Seems exhausting.

That why do don't use punctuation anything invented after the spaces or blanks is uselessness

That's psychopath behavior

Joel...

See you there, bitch!

😁🔪

*I dont know if youre being sarcastic

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.

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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There's a sketch about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo

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.

Well done, lol.

As a an anxious millennial I add: cool, 😅, 😆, 😊, XD or 😬. All inappropriately placed.

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? 🤔

See you there…

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

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 … .

My niece, a younger millennial, adds haha to the end of every text. I'm not a fan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The need has absolutely not diminished, in fact in written language it’s more important than ever.

Sure, see you there! :)

Sure, in between sentences. But there's no need for a period at the end of a message. Just look at the comments. There's many without a period at the end, and some with. I thought it was kinda silly at first to prescribe meaning to it as well, however it works well as an indicator of tone, and punctuation at the end of a message doesn't really have any other purpose now that messages are contained within their own bubble

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

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.

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's somehow funny that you decided to end this sentence with a dot which otherwise would've ended with three dots :D

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.

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.

It's old-fashioned informal writing. Until about 20 years ago, the vast majority of writing was formal writing. Formal writing follows formal speech patterns, with proper sentences and commas and full stops. This is what you'd learn at school. When we talk informally, everyday, we don't actually talk like that. We talk more in fragments. An ellipsis is sort of the old person's way of separating these fragments. Younger people tend to press enter and send another message to separate the fragments. Maybe the oldies get annoyed at young people sending multiple messages when it could have been one.

I always punctuate. Sorry, I guess?

Gen X here. I do all of that. :)

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

Woah calm the fuck down and please censor your punctuation for sensitive readers

Holy shit, you don't have to be so aggressive about it... (/S+lol)

See you ssssoon...

save yourself the hassle and just skip the reply entirely!

That just seems vaguely threatening.

Ok but if this wasn't partially already inside everybody's head, why doesn't everybody write emails like the bottom one?

People use the top one for a reason.

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.