People who don't put periods after their sentences on social media

It’s social media not a college thesis.

I couldn't read one more Tweet from that ignoramus.

For texting I haven't used periods in years. I do here at the hallowed grounds of DL, however.

Apparently, though, a question mark he can bring himself to type.

A period is supposed to be rude, for texts, at least. There was a DL thread about it. I use periods in texts.

r2 his tweets are actually quite spot-on, but the lack of periods makes them cringe.

A period after a period after a period is an ellipsis.

I suggest you schedule an appointment with your therapist to discuss this issue further.

I can't stand that

Yeah that question mark stands out like a sore thumb.

I wonder how he feels about exclamation points.

It's similar to the "He's not wrong" trend - instead of saying "He's right." the person has to express their thoughts as gingerly as possible, so as to not offend.

R5, are you talking about that thread from a couple years ago?

The premise was something like 'millennials are threatened by periods because they perceive them as aggressive'.

I think there was a story linked from NPR or NYT or some other group that always falls for neo-hysterics.

I don’t know the correct way either……

R12, I can't find the thread, but the OP used the term "full stop" rather than "period" on the title. I can't remember whether the original source was NPR or NYT. It was a young vs. old theory, which is probably true.

OP is some old geezer

R11, akin to "Not gonna lie..." (followed by a totally pedestrian, predictable, dullard statement).

I can't believe how often they combine two or three Reddit declarations in one sentence with no apparent self-awareness. "Hive mind" is right.

[QUOTE] The premise was something like 'millennials are threatened by periods because they perceive them as aggressive'.

This is completely true. I have a younger gay friend (born 1994) who told me that the periods in my texts felt “threatening.”

Q: Why are text messages misogynistic?

A. Periods are "threatening."

Lazy.

And what's the deal with not typing the subject of the sentence if it's you?

For example, a tweet: "Excited to see the holiday decorations going up around town!"

Or, "Disappointed that Trump is still on the loose."

Or, "So happy that someone finally put Marlo in her place!"

Is "I'm" an illegal word on social media?

It might be a holdover from when there used to be a smaller character limit on Twitter.

It's a passive-aggressive superiority thing. Same with not using caps. "I'm cool and detached, not emotionally invested (like YOU)."

I had a salesman friend who, for some reason, went through a piece of marketing writing of mine and criticized the number of times I used the word "I". I was using it correctly to refer to myself, not excessively, but he said it could come across as conceited or something. I didn't really agree with him, but every time I write, he's there in my head.

[quote]Doctors who are not 15 years old!

Really? Still? After all these years?

That's it. I'm suing.

[Quote] Are they that timid about their opinions that a simple declarative sentence is too violent?

Op, I think you nailed it and your post triggered me because I intensely loathe someone who writes like this.

I have a colleague of sorts who is a PhD who does this; no periods, ever, and a new paragraph with every fucking sentence. He is a slithering snake, will present an almost timid, highly diplomatic and empathetic persona to your face, and as soon as you're out of the room/out of earshot he might as well be an enemy. A duplicitous cunt who doesn't have the balls to be the least bit assertive, and secretly loathes people who are, undermining them at every turn. He's done this repeatedly and not just to me. He's a misogynist too.

Ironically, his PhD is in psychology, and from an accredited university of top of it. A condescending, hateful cunt. When I see people who write like this, it's a huge red flag to me now.

Agree, R22. There's an arrogance there, at least with the person I referred to in ^.

That's what really grates about these pussyfoot talkers, R25. There was a thread many years (6+) ago on DL about what giant secret assholes new-agey and adjacent people are.

They're worse than anyone else. They're like... SOUTHERNERS!

Oh, another big-name person who does this is the Twitter Twat Jack Dorsey.

As r22 suggests, I can totally see that being the reason for him.

He does have quite a few posts that use exclamation points and complete sentences, but I think those are written by PR people. The ones expressing his personal opinions are always like the below, including his stupid "not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter" (spread across two lines) tweet.

Meant to say that that old thread was unforgettable to me and a good guide to sussing these people out. I think it was around 2014, before the switchover to the "new" DL.

I*^ meant to say...

I found this in a thread from last year:

There are so many fucking women here at the DL, I refuse to add to their stinking squalor by contributing a period of my own to the mess

[quote]It's a passive-aggressive superiority thing. Same with not using caps. "I'm cool and detached, not emotionally invested (like YOU)."

If I'm on my phone I don't bother capitalizing. And I don't use caps for republicans or other assorted assholes. They don't deserve the common courtesy of a capital letter.

White mischief.

Young people who don’t trust anyone who use this punctuation mark are idiots, periodt

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[quote] People who don't put periods after their sentences on social media

Once voting rights legislation and Build Back Better are passed, I hope Biden turns his attention to this issue.

Un point

I think he copied and pasted his points in bullet form. I'm not sure if bullets can be successfully copied and pasted on Twitter. The rule with bullets is that you don't put full stops at the end of each listed item.

R33 yes but to START a sentence with a lower-case letter takes effort. You have to undo the automatic capital letter. So people who do this to look blasé are actually trying harder.

R7 A while ago I read this study about email writing, which observed that Boomers frequently use ellipses, and that Millennials and GenZ perceived that as passive aggressive.

I found the New Age asshole thread! It's from 2012.

It's not punctuation-related, but these sorts in the link are the old version of today's covert assholes.

Why I never

r40: you can off the auto-cap once and for all by going to ‘settings’ then ‘keyboards’

from a graphic design perspective, everything looks nicer and more friendly in lower case

I work in a University, and it's not uncommon to get emails like this from other professors. It's a way of saying "I'm so busy I don't even have time to type my sentences fully". It is such appalling manners.

The movement began February 21, 1967, when the New York Times removed the period from its nameplate. They claimed it was to save ink. But we all knew better.

Because you’re only allowed a certain number of characters on Twitter

[Quote]I had a salesman friend who, for some reason, went through a piece of marketing writing of mine and criticized the number of times I used the word "I".

The salesman was right. If possible it's always better to avoid "I" and "me" as much as possible.particularly in prof work. The Brits are particularly good at this.

Yep, I'd blame Twitter for that one. The company should program tweets so that the character limit does not count punctuation marks and issue an announcement that they made that change so that users will retain an understanding of grammar and the necessity of punctuation for effective communication.

R44 still an effort

typing in lower case, and without using the period, is like murmuring what you have to say

R52 in a world-weary stoner voice

What am I supposed to do?

From a literacy perspective, r45, to eliminate capitalization and declarative end punctuation is to appear aggressive and puerile in "Make me!" unconventionality.

Moreover, r45, since when is the main goal of written communication its "graphic design" and/or to look "nicer and more friendly"?

Texting and Tweeting aren't usually done in artistic fonts.

Next we'll hear that certain traffic signals, specifically red lights and stop signs, are "too aggressive, and unfriendly," and that the former should be eliminated and the latter changed to "pause" (not "Pause").

R54 why don’t you fuck off you bleed’n tosser

R56 That's funny. When I was in high school—and I graduated in 1996—my school replaced the bell that signaled the end of classes with a soft "tone" because someone determined that the bell was alarming (har har) and too aggressive. The thing was, a lot of classrooms and especially the cafeteria and gym were boisterous and a lot of times no one heard the "tone" and classes wouldn't be released until students showed up from other ones. We only had four minutes to get from one room to the next without being late, and in P.E., it was a particular problem because often the teacher would be distracted with working with students, not monitor the time, not hear the tone, and then by the time students started arriving, there was only a minute or two left for us to change our clothes and get to the next class, which was impossible, so it made being late a regular thing. And if you were late three times, you got detention. It was a real mess, and all because someone decided hearing a school bell that had been sounding for decades was too damaging to students' psyches.

Interestingly, it was only a few years after these types of student-sensitivity measures were implemented that the Columbine and subsequent mass shootings began to happen regularly.

Discussion of my periods is literal violence.

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I can see why the doctor in the OP link didn't put periods at the end of each line. It's because none of those statements are full sentences.

R46 Yes, in that context it's disrespectful.

There's a happy medium of not obsessing over punctuation and appearing to assume an affection.

Happy medium between the two, I meant.

R39 even his short tweets are like that, I doubt he is using Word for a couple of sentences. He has clearly made a stylistic choice not to use periods, which is literal violence.

R62 check his other tweets. He does that with almost all of them.

R48 which might make sense except even short tweets are like this. And your post didn't use a period; but you barely wrote anything, so why did you chose to leave it off?

[quote]yes but to START a sentence with a lower-case letter takes effort. You have to undo the automatic capital letter. So people who do this to look blasé are actually trying harder.

That's only if you are using a phone. Most of the time I'm on my home computer.

It's 2021, Nobody cares about this kind of thing anymore. If this were a resume or something important, but on a website. No one cares.

R68's ass stinks!

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In OP's example, the doctor doesn't write complete sentences, dropping off verbs, prepositions, etc.

I should complain about the missing words before I complain about missing periods.

If someone is hurt by a period in a text, then fuck him; but the same applies for someone hurt by the absence of a period.

Unless composed as full paragraphs, texts are quick, informal, and sometimes fragmentary by their nature. A missing period in a stand alone sentence or a sentence fragment shouldn't set anyone on edge, nor a concise two "sentence" paragraph where the second period was omitted as a character saving gesture.

R70, Ahem: Poetry is not prose.

Poetry uses structures quite alien to prose. Moreover, it often takes...wait for it...poetic license with other conventions of prose, such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, etc.

And so on.

It's my style

I'm just trying to get a little attention ovah heah

R14 "Full Stop" is terminology from the days of Western Union telegrams.

‘Full stop’ is still commonly used in Commonwealth countries, as well as Britain.

R70 random tweeters are not poets, although I'm sure they think their farts smell like lilacs.

R71 you're joking, right? It's clearly a conscious choice he made. He knows how to write correctly. In his shorter tweets he does it as well. Him dropping words like he does periods is just as bad, but the periods stand out specifically as a bad style choice.

R68 sleeps on a bare mattress!

R27 Southerners? You are stereotyping, projecting, poorly informed, and showing you are short on enlightenment.

[Quote] For texting I haven't used periods in years.

Use periods when texting to show displeasure or cunterification.

R79, Southerners in the sense that they are saccharine to one's face but start talking shit immediately after one's back is turned. I think it applies.

Yes, it's a stereotype, but not all stereotypes fall from the sky, you know. They come from somewhere. You're not aware that many Southerners are perceived that way?