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Is the risk of being called a Boomer, or any other pejorative by faceless teenagers, or anyone else, a concern to 1) anyone over 20 or 2) anyone who has been on
by vcg3rd 3y ago
Is the risk of being called a Boomer, or any other pejorative by faceless teenagers, or anyone else, a concern to 1) anyone over 20 or 2) anyone who has been on the Internet longer than a month?
I text like I type/write, and even did with a dumb phone with a number pad and did so on USENET and BBSes. Why? Because text is a notoriously more difficult medium than talking in person through which to convey meaning.
Communication is hard! Face-to-face is hard even with people you know and who know you well. Text is much harder, so removing as much ambiguity as possible is desired.
Why should the reader be left to figure out if he's reading Tumblr dialect or Reddit dialect. If you want to be understood, if you actually want your message to "translate" as closely as possible to your meaning, the onus is on you.