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Did you notice that that site is offering to write school essays?
I assume they're written by AI; the stilted language sounds just like those bad YouTubes.
Even the opening line makes me cringe..."In this time where most people..."
shouldn't that be "when" not "where?" And they want to charge for that?
I doubt that this text was written by AI, just because you found a common human error there Like a rushing student writing an essay for a professor and not noticing a simple mistake.
And I also found this article in the public domain (you would know how many times I stumble upon open school essays while looking for some information I need), and I put up with it, hahaha.
Periods (.) are passive aggressive. That's why people use ellipses and similar (,,,,,,) to separate their written thoughts.
There's a few posters on the forum who use commas for ellipses. WHY?
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Exclamation points are friendly. If you don't use them liberally, you can be considered cold!!!
This sourpuss finds them highly irritating. Then when you meet the person, do they speak like that? Like everything is exciting and full of smiles? No, they do not.
I deal with a lot of email correspondence at work and I can usually decipher a person's gender and general age based on punctuation usage alone. Excessive e-points are a dead giveaway for a female in her 20s. The type that says "super" a lot. When I finally meet the person, I'm usually spot on.
I was recently befuddled to find out that the words "ok" and "okay" apparently have different meanings, with one being negative or aggressive while the other is positive or conciliatory. Unfortunately for me I cannot remember which form is which so I am likely offending people left and right!!!
Great article, thanks for the link. I've never heard of or ever received a "Kk" text. I always spell out okay because OK/ok just looks to slangy in a work environment.
I find it amusing that some 20 somethings think that they have enough knowledge about language to be judgmental. To paraphrase Kathy Bates, "Face it girls, I'm older, I'm wiser, and I have more verbs."
Internet language it's just a completely different type of language. It's more like a slang, and seasoned users know the meanings of various abbreviations and acronyms. Other popular trends include the use of excessive punctuation, or lack thereof, writing in all lower-case, emojis, omitting or shortening words in sentences because of character limitations, etc.
Emoticons are important because they compensate for missing face-to-face expressions and hand gestures. Using excessive punctuation is a way of giving emphasis to ones statement or question, or of conveying feeling of anger, doubt, or excitement that isn’t possible if you stick to the rules of writing.
You don't use all that when speaking with someone in person, however some of it already penetrated spoken languages.
I don't see it as a bad thing. Languages evolve all the times. We already added a whole bunch of technical words, abbreviations and acronyms that didn't exist 20-30-50 years ago. We ditched archaisms. Words developed new meanings. What sounds new or awkward now will be soon commonly used by everyone.
Internet language it's just a completely different type of language. It's more like a slang, and seasoned users know the meanings of various abbreviations and acronyms. Other popular trends include the use of excessive punctuation, or lack thereof, writing in all lower-case, emojis, omitting or shortening words in sentences because of character limitations, etc.
Emoticons are important because they compensate for missing face-to-face expressions and hand gestures. Using excessive punctuation is a way of giving emphasis to ones statement or question, or of conveying feeling of anger, doubt, or excitement that isn’t possible if you stick to the rules of writing.
You don't use all that when speaking with someone in person, however some of it already penetrated spoken languages.
I don't see it as a bad thing. Languages evolve all the times. We already added a whole bunch of technical words, abbreviations and acronyms that didn't exist 20-30-50 years ago. We ditched archaisms. Words developed new meanings. What sounds new or awkward now will be soon commonly used by everyone.
The linguist John McWhorter (I've been a big fan of his since I read The Power of Babel years ago) has a Ted Talk on this.
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Like a rushing student writing an essay for a professor and not noticing a simple mistake.
