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Is this written sarcastically?
by mlindner 4y ago
Is this written sarcastically?
- vsnf 4y agoNo. It’s written to be funny but I can vouch that these rules, such as they are, are all more or less correct.
- mlindner 4y agoI have a much younger cousin who happens to be Gen Z and he said that it's mostly exaggerated but saw some elements of it when talking to girls. He's a freshman in university at the moment.
- tgv 4y agoI asked my daughter and her friend who was with her (both 20) if there's a difference between "I'll be home" and "I'll be home." They confirmed, and said the latter is much more serious. And this is in The Netherlands. I proposed that they were (sort of) pronouncing the punctuation, as in "I'll be home. Period.", and it seems to sound that way. Odd, but it seems wide-spread.
- sushzbdbehsh 4y agoif my girlfriend texted me >I'll be home. I'd assume she was breaking up with me
- Traubenfuchs 4y ago> pronouncing the punctuation I do not think you can think of it that way. It's said that the subtleties of spoken language are lost in text, but in this case, the subtleties of the written word are lost in spoken language.
- dilap 4y agoi'm millenial/gen-x cusp, and they all seemed pretty reasonable and intuitive to me, EXCEPT number 3 -- a good-old fashioned simple smiley is passive-aggressive and cold to gen-z??
- Dalewyn 4y agoSerious take: The new generation rejects what was acceptable to the previous generation as part of the process of developing their own identity. Humorous take: Sensitive snowflakes gonna sensitive.
- eschatology 4y agoHere's an attempt to demonstrate how :) can come off as very toxic or passive aggressive: --- Serious take: The new generation rejects what was acceptable to the previous generation as part of the process of developing their own identity :) Humorous take: Sensitive snowflakes gonna sensitive :)
- Dalewyn 4y agoAnd I say that's their problem. ┐(￣ー￣)┌
- Jach 4y agoI got into the habit of using =P to suggest humor or not being too serious, but since I picked it up from someone at least 10 years older than me, I suppose it could come off as toxic or arrogant to people 10 years younger and none have told me yet
- Gigachad 4y agoThat was the most real one imo. The :) is super toxic. Least aggressive would be ^^ or :3
- debugnik 4y agoNo zoomer I talk to has any idea what ^^ means, it seems like a millennial giveaway. I haven't tested :3, but in general it seems to me they're barely aware of plain-text emotes.
- detourdog 4y agoI have seen :) and felt it as toxic. I also don't believe it is inherently toxic. The surprising part to me is that I have an old pamphlet from Hayes that has a catalog of emoticons as we used to refer to them. This means that :) has changed its meaning in a generation or so... which I never considered that "pictograms" could do that. It could also be that the context sets the tone and the emoticons are nuanced.
- saagarjha 4y agoThey're correct but it's written in kind of a cringe Buzzfeed way
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoThose are all unironically true. But what does it mean when the third boyfriend of my first boyfriend whose first boyfriend I was keeps watching my Instagram stories but not following me, considering my first boyfriend blocked me everywhere? Are they sitting there together laughing at my stories? Does he watch me out of low self confidence? He must know I know he is watching them. Should I write him? That kind of would violate my rule to accept my first ex desire not to communicate with me ever again. Young people / social media communication and whole new categories of communication channels / signs/cues like getting your story watched is quite complex!
- Dalewyn 4y ago(ノ゜Д゜)ノ ⌒┻━┻
- Obscurity4340 4y agoI will never use any kind of messaging platform that insists on "Read receipts", or even worse, the typing breadcrumbs. Fuck that shit, I'll reply when I'm good and ready, that's a big part of what makes it fun. You never know when you're going to get a sweet little squirt of dopamine == unexpected or surprise reply
- Gigachad 4y agoEveryone just reads them in the notifications so they don’t mark as read
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoI don't think so. I found myself lol'ing (as in actually laughing out loud) at the accuracy.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoFor sarcasm sentences can be suffixed with /s I refuse to do this on Reddit. I long for a simpler time when it was literally impossible to tell who was being sarcastic and who is a genuine crazy person.