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Periods (.) are passive aggressive. That's why people use ellipses and similar (,,,,,,) to separate their written thoughts.
I guess I'm offending people all over the internet (no capital I, BTW).
lol no longer means laughing out loud (and is no longer LOL), it is now added as an emotional, softening touch to communications.
Exclamation points are friendly. If you don't use them liberally, you can be considered cold!!!
This book does make me feel just a leeeeeetle bit old.... (it also mentioned that even before the internet, ellipses at the end of a sentence have FOUR dots, not just 3. I've been doing that wrong for years!)
My thoughts are that LOL now means some sarcastic reaction to the message. And so many !!!!! means tooooo emotional reaction, and sometimes it scares me if I don't know this guy who wrote this.
This book is too OLD for modern "rules" of communication on the internet.
Remarkably enough, if you write on the internet using standard English grammar, spelling, and usage, while you may be identified as "old", what you write will be understood.
And I'm not trying to be hip/up to date/whatever the right term-du-jour is. I outgrew that at about 15. So I'm going to stick with writing in standard English, though with a few stylistic idiosyncrasies I've picked up through the years.
Remarkably enough, if you write on the internet using standard English grammar, spelling, and usage, while you may be identified as "old", what you write will be understood.
And I'm not trying to be hip/up to date/whatever the right term-du-jour is. I outgrew that at about 15. So I'm going to stick with writing in standard English, though with a few stylistic idiosyncrasies I've picked up through the years.
I agree. My internet writing is pretty much limited to FB comments, and C-D posts anyway although I do text family members. If I tried to change my “style†or vocabulary, I might well be misunderstood. (But things might be different if I was communicating with younger employees.)
Language is perpetually buffeted by social forces taking it new places. In the case of the internet, it tends to skew young and creative - people in those demographics use it more, especially for communication. the instantaneousness of it favors abbreviations of all sorts, as do the tiny keypads of smartphones.
My thoughts are that LOL now means some sarcastic reaction to the message. And so many !!!!! means tooooo emotional reaction, and sometimes it scares me if I don't know this guy who wrote this.
This book is too OLD for modern "rules" of communication on the internet.
Btw, I found some information about internet language. It seems to me that it's written here more clearly and more modernly. At least the author discusses real topics: The Language Of Youth Online.
Btw, I found some information about internet language. It seems to me that it's written here more clearly and more modernly. At least the author discusses real topics: The Language Of Youth Online.
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?
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