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Comment on when is "cool" fine and when is it rude?

FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’ve heard from Gen Z that ending a text response with a period is passive aggressive. So “cool” may have seemed glib on its own, but the punctuation might be giving an additional, if unintentional, tone

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Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My wife does that. She’ll say she’s not mad and that she’s fine but the messages start ending with a.

Thats when I know im in trouble.

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jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m a millennial and I think that

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- FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  To be fair, I am also a millennial, but most of my friends were surprised when I told them about that correction I received from the younger generation. I guess that says more about my friends than millennials overall lol
  
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  - Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m also a millennial, and I think it depends a lot on rapport as well. If you regularly talk with someone in text form, and consistently use punctuation, it probably doesn’t come off as passive aggressive than if you suddenly respond with the trailing period. It also probably makes one-word responses a lot more abrupt.
    
    I agree with above, replying “Cool!”, or “That’s cool!” would likely go over much better in that context
    
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