Sounds like people are looking for things to rustle their jimmies.
Stop over-reacting to meaningless trite.
Stop over-reacting to meaningless trite.
I want off this planet... 'Generation Z feels intimidated by full stop, experts find.'
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I mean, there are a whole bunch of people who still think it’s true
It’s also funny coming from the flower power generation
Considering the text makes no mention of gen z being "intimidated" by the full stop maybe it's just some snowflake boomer?
As for the topic of the full stop, I use proper punctuation in all my text messages and nobody that texts me frequently reads anything into it. However, if my girlfriend sends me a full stop I know I'm in trouble. So this doesn't actually surprise me. Maybe the title should be "Gen Z largely use the full stop to signal disapproval."
Language evolves, either deal with it or move to Iceland.
As for the topic of the full stop, I use proper punctuation in all my text messages and nobody that texts me frequently reads anything into it. However, if my girlfriend sends me a full stop I know I'm in trouble. So this doesn't actually surprise me. Maybe the title should be "Gen Z largely use the full stop to signal disapproval."
Language evolves, either deal with it or move to Iceland.
That's such a telegraph headline, misleading boomer rage bait as per usual, feeding time at confirmation bias zoo
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I suspect "intimidated" is an overstatement: more that they may interpret it as terseness, and thus an indication the other user may be angry or upset.
After that, as The Rogue Wolf says, it's just the usual exaggeration where the older generation likes to pretend the younger will never amount to anything. To which the yonger generation probably needs to answer: "Yeah, well you brought us up, so whose fault is it really?"
I guess I can kind of understand. I make assumptions based upon use of proper punctuation. Specifically I equate the lack or misuse of punctuation as signs of lower intelligence or lack of proper education. Understandable for those who haven't completed their basic level of education or who aren't native English speakers. And an airhorn for stupidity for everyone else.
I guess that puts me firmly in "old man, cloud" territory. On the other hand it is quite a timesaver. Just looking at a tweet or text and I can instantly judge what was written as valid or something not worth reading.
I guess that puts me firmly in "old man, cloud" territory. On the other hand it is quite a timesaver. Just looking at a tweet or text and I can instantly judge what was written as valid or something not worth reading.
There are many dozens of reasons I want to get off this planet. Terrible texting grammar is not one of them.
I usually just see it as casual. Informal. Another is deliberately shortened sentences, as I’m demonstrating here.
‘Lower intelligence’ might be regularly misspelling. But usually more likely misinterpreting everything but that can just be troll behaviour.
"Look at this generation getting offended by stupid shit!" says member of a generation getting offended by stupid shit
I was born ready to become an angry old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
I wonder, do people like even read the article? And did the writer even read what she reported on tbh before making that headline or did she make clickbait out of it deliberately
Dunno, like, are people just playing along with a dumb article, or is it actually a matter of people can't read and see that the actual message is an entirely reasonable one. It actually just boils down to: Within this particular (large) group of people, using a full stop in a text message is often seen as conveying annoyance due to being uncommon and usually unnecessary in this medium.
And honestly, I'm not Gen Z, but I'm baffled that people haven't picked this up on their own already. It wasn't hard to figure out, then people see this article and instead of picking up the right meaning they act like it's people being sensitive??? It's literally just learning a potential nuance in text communication
Like let's take a look at what this means. It doesn't say they find it intimidating. It says they interpret it in a text message specifically as a sign of annoyance.
The suggestion is even more clear here, it may differ when people see it in e-mails. And it gives an explanation here, that full stops are the exception. This is a matter of the generation having some kind of basic pattern recognition, when people do not usually use a full stop while texting, then suddenly do, one looks at that and wonders if it is meaningful, at least if you're even semi-observant. And quite frankly, I've personally used 'Ok.' in more text chat-like mediums to convey annoyance.
Dunno, like, are people just playing along with a dumb article, or is it actually a matter of people can't read and see that the actual message is an entirely reasonable one. It actually just boils down to: Within this particular (large) group of people, using a full stop in a text message is often seen as conveying annoyance due to being uncommon and usually unnecessary in this medium.
And honestly, I'm not Gen Z, but I'm baffled that people haven't picked this up on their own already. It wasn't hard to figure out, then people see this article and instead of picking up the right meaning they act like it's people being sensitive??? It's literally just learning a potential nuance in text communication
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I find this whole topic interesting, because it's actually a tactic I use to try and show tone through text. It was subconsciously done during my high school years, but I realized why I was doing it down the line and still do it to this day. I'll use a full stop when I want to be more professional, but in basic chat messages I otherwise leave my last sentence in my post without a full stop. And if there is one, there's usually a reason for it, and it probably has to do with something within the past 2-4 messages of the conversation.
It's basically this. I knew that some people did this to help give nuance to tone through text, but I didn't think it was wide spread enough to trigger the boomers