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Not an office worker and spend much less than 2.5hrs a day reading and responding to emails, but man I don’t get this at all. Maybe people just don’t send me em

Not an office worker and spend much less than 2.5hrs a day reading and responding to emails, but man I don’t get this at all. Maybe people just don’t send me emails that make me feel bad? Slightly worried I’m constantly offending people like back when I heard that putting a period at the end of a text is the same thing as stabbing them through the neck with a letter opener.

neltnerb 5y ago
I'm honestly curious when that convention would have seeped into my brain; in checking, I only use periods for multi-sentence texts. And I've practically forgotten what it felt like to be in my 20s. Even my mother's text messages don't end in periods if they're a single sentence. Bizarre how the conventions of a particular communication medium just seep into your brain.
aaron5 5y ago
had to laugh at your second point - same for me. i was like, "but periods go after sentences, right?" but now i don't do it the super weird one is (i live in china currently) that there's a smiley face that is not a smiley face. i always used it. i was hip. i was fitting in. my emoticon game was making progress and then apparently i found out i was doing the equivalent of a reddit /s at the end of all my messages: "that smiley face is a fake smile" how could i know that? it's a yellow smiley face! haha
- dwighttk 5y ago
  A long time ago I decided I’d not use emoji, just smilies, but that went away once I got a smartphone and the emoji keyboard was right there
  - junon 5y ago
    For me, it was when I moved from the US to Germany. Germans do not use "haha" and the like, but instead emojis. A gratuitous amount. Either you use them or don't, but you have to realize how you come off to the other person (though admittedly this is less of a problem in Germany to begin with - being direkt and monotone is a virtue here sometimes).
pif 5y ago
I couldn't care less. Proper grammar can be sacrificed for my own sake (read: laziness) but never for someone's "I'm in the mood of inventing a new rule thus a I state that...".

neltnerb 5y ago

I'm honestly curious when that convention would have seeped into my brain; in checking, I only use periods for multi-sentence texts. And I've practically forgotten what it felt like to be in my 20s. Even my mother's text messages don't end in periods if they're a single sentence. Bizarre how the conventions of a particular communication medium just seep into your brain.

aaron5 5y ago

had to laugh at your second point - same for me. i was like, "but periods go after sentences, right?" but now i don't do it the super weird one is (i live in china currently) that there's a smiley face that is not a smiley face. i always used it. i was hip. i was fitting in. my emoticon game was making progress and then apparently i found out i was doing the equivalent of a reddit /s at the end of all my messages: "that smiley face is a fake smile" how could i know that? it's a yellow smiley face! haha

dwighttk 5y ago
A long time ago I decided I’d not use emoji, just smilies, but that went away once I got a smartphone and the emoji keyboard was right there
- junon 5y ago
  For me, it was when I moved from the US to Germany. Germans do not use "haha" and the like, but instead emojis. A gratuitous amount. Either you use them or don't, but you have to realize how you come off to the other person (though admittedly this is less of a problem in Germany to begin with - being direkt and monotone is a virtue here sometimes).

pif 5y ago

I couldn't care less. Proper grammar can be sacrificed for my own sake (read: laziness) but never for someone's "I'm in the mood of inventing a new rule thus a I state that...".