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0 pointselliekelly4y ago0 comments

Since my social group does not extend to the NY Times, Washington Post, or any of the authors of any of the links I posted it’s quite clearly not just a “quirk” of my social group. It’s part of a wider shift in how we use language to communicate online.

You can accept it or you can ignore it. Either way, the shift has already happened whether you’ve realized it or not.

My Grandma TYPES LIKE THIS ON FACEBOOK because she insists it shows her excitement. Silly, Grandma...

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thaumasiotes4y ago· 2 in thread

> You can accept it or you can ignore it. Either way, the shift has already happened whether you’ve realized it or not.

You viewing periods as threatening is not a shift that has happened to me. It's a shift that's happened to you. If I were to "accept it" as you suggest, the only thing that would happen would be that I started misinterpreting my friends and taking offense where none was offered. No part of that is a good idea.

You seem to have a lot of difficulty with the idea that different groups might not communicate in the same way. Do you really believe that everyone using 88 as a fun way to say "bye" is really signaling Nazi sympathies?

zo14y ago

Sounds like you not having the shift described by the other guy is a quirk of your social group. Either way, you're both arguing which is more prevalent because it's implied that not 100% of everyone agrees with a social norm. We go with the majority.

kwoff4y ago

I don't think "we go with the majority" just because you prefer the majority's preferences. There are many cultures on the internet and the planet, and they have their own local preferences. If anything, I think it would make sense to go by the Robustness Principle (be conservative in what you send, liberal with what you receive), though not everyone has to accept that, of course.

klyrs4y ago

> My Grandma TYPES LIKE THIS ON FACEBOOK because she insists it shows her excitement

Yeah, and since she's your grandma you read her allcaps as excitement, don't you? mom glare

As a bridger, I think you all need to see the gradients that exist in language, and learn how to read, maybe write dialect

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