Young people focus on the tone they’re conveying.
Old people focus on following the rules that were beaten into them as children for no reason.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because old people like us view written correspondence as less disposable. When jotting down personal notes, we don’t worry about spelling or punctuation, but writing a letter? You double check that shit so there isn’t documentation of how illiterate you are!
Youth grew up with texting. It’s designed to be fast and efficient. Sup? OMG 👍 They just need to get the point across, it’s not a grammar competition.
Neither is right or wrong, it’s just a generational difference.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s a good way of framing it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well where else am I supposed to get my practice in for the Junior Grammar Rodeo
card797@champserver.net 1 week ago
Oh, no. It’s wrong. Punctuation makes everything clear!
lud@lemm.ee 1 week ago
There is absolutely no difference between “no” and “No.”. Both can be understood perfectly well.
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It made everything clear back when everything was hand written or done on a type writer. This mattered as paper wasn’t infinite.
Much of modern communication is done in bubbles on screens, so the punctuation doesnt matter as much as it used to.
That said, run-on sentences and word salad are quite common which makes for some entertaining yet stroke inducing screenshots.
The so-called “rules” of language arent actually rules. They are observations. Language use has greatly evolved over time, and schools teach the rules as they know them, forgetting that even a hundred years ago, it was different.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or … If you can’t understand it unless they spell it out for you, there may be a deficiency on your end.
card797@champserver.net 1 week ago
Lol
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m glad you thought it was funny.
Evidently it hit a little too close to home for others.