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Sigh, newspeak (yeah I'm abusing the term)... You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going t
by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Sigh, newspeak (yeah I'm abusing the term)... You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident.
Some guy whose girlfriend I follow on Facebook posts updates with emojis next to words, something like "We went up [Mountain emoji] Mount Cook today", etc. It's excruciating, the last time I saw something like this was when I was doing fill-in-the-blanks in kindergarten, where we had to add the words next to the picture hints, so when people write like that, yeah I think they're kindergartners.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident. I'm pretty sure that's the point. Ending in a question mark is a way of marking that there are error bars and you're not 100% confident, just saying what you think is most likely the case.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoThe 2 sentences are already hedged with "it seems so" and "I feel...". There is no need to uptalk it. "Not 100% confident", well, yeah, it shows. Is he sure he feels that way, or is he not confident how he feels about emojis?