🤔 Ending a text message in a period is passive aggressive ( ? )

[HomeschoolDad]

HomeschoolDad:

Not to mention paradife, licenfed, fold, and [something]-ftreet.

Bifhopfgate!

Or even Biſhopſgate. It’s there, if you go to Infert fymbol.

I didn’t know that. Thankſ.

Thiſ iſ getting ſilly, so I think I’ll let it go now. Even the Germans had the good sense to get rid of the ess-tsett a few years back (that thing that looks kind of like a Greek beta and which signifies two “esses” (ss) together.

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[Anesti33]

Yeah, important usage note about long s. It isn’t used at the end of words. (See Greek sigma forms.)

 

[HomeschoolDad]

Yeah, important usage note about long s. It isn’t used at the end of words. (See Greek sigma forms.)

I know, I was just having some fun with a fairly obscure point of historical orthography.

 

[Beryllos]

140+ posts? Y’all sure are getting a lot of mileage out of this topic!

 

[ThinkingSapien]

140+ posts? Y’all sure are getting a lot of mileage out of this topic!

People can be passionate about grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

 

[fredystairs]

A koala bear walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. The sandwich is quickly devoured. The koala stands up, draws out a pistol, and shoots twice into the air. He then proceeds to the exit. The head waiter comes up to the koala and asks why he did that. The koala says that he is from the local zoo and there is a pamphlet on koalas there. He gives one to the head waiter. The pamphlet reads:

“Koalas are native of Australia. Eats, shoots, and leaves.”

Edited to add: I got this from a book about grammar, entitled: “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.”

 

[Episcopalian]

I found out that putting two spaces after a period, or end of sentence punctuation, is considered old fashioned. Apparently the two space formatting was developed for typewriters, but new typists are taught to put only one space after a period.

Very weird! Imho, it looks nicer with two spaces, but that’s just me.

 

[babochka]

“Let’s eat Grandma.”

“Let’s eat, Grandma!”

Punctuation saves lives. This is serious business.

 

[Niblo]

The devil whispered in my ear ‘Your not strong enough to resist me’

And I whispered back ‘You’re’.

 

[Pattylt]

And I whispered back ‘You’re’.

Be still, my beating heart! I’m a silent grammar Nazi as I’ve discovered others do not like being corrected, but my mind does it anyway!

 

[Niblo]

Be still, my beating heart! I’m a silent grammar Nazi as I’ve discovered others do not like being corrected, but my mind does it anyway!

Mine too! Blame Fowler’s ‘A Dictionary of Modern English Usage’.

 

[GKMotley]

Haven’t seen my copy for years.

 

[Niblo]

Well thumbed in its day. I doubt this is the case now. For me, a brilliant piece of work.

 

[BartholomewB]

A few years ago I read it all the way through. I don’t think I’d do that with The King’s English, which isn’t written in the same entertaining style.

 

[Niblo]

Agreed.

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[lwest]

Personally, I don’t think using proper grammar should be offensive to anyone. Example: “The Smiths ate their neighbors were sick with the flu.” Or “The Smiths ate. Their neighbors were sick with the flu.” Punctuation and proper grammar help facilitate clear communication. That used to be important.

 

[Pitcairn17]

As we learned from “Ebonics” a few years ago, the previously accepted “rules of grammar” are racist, patriarchal, colonialist, and oppressive. As, I’m sure, is cursive - clearly a product of “privilege”

 

[lwest]

I don’t think skin color has anything to do with using proper punctuation and grammar but to each their own. Seems like everything is racist these days.

 

[LilyM]

BartholomewB:

I wonder what the connection is between practicing medicine and lacking the ability to write legibly

When I worked as a gerontologist at a hospital that was still using handwritten patient notes (most are transitioning to digital), I noticed that most professionals - whether doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, etc. - all had universally terrible handwriting.

I suspect that it’s largely because, on an immediate day-to-day basis, the quality of the handwriting doesn’t especially matter: much of what was written in our patient notes was based on a district-wide system of shorthand that abbreviates various conditions and their changes into short, distinct phrases.

So a phrase like:

Pt reports ↑HTN; Hx THR(L) 5/12, ? Fn OT.

Would mean ‘The patient reports increased hypertension. He or she has a medical history of a left total hip replacement 5 months ago. Can the occupational therapist query his or her functional capacity?’

The only area where clear, neat handwriting was insisted upon was in respect to numbers.

As the lone lawyer in a family with a number of doctors, we lawyers often have cruddy writing too, often for similar reasons- clients and judges (and witnesses in court) can speak quickly and we have to try to get as much as possible down as quickly as we can.

We don’t use so much shorthand as doctors (shame), we use a lot of acronyms

So to a criminal lawyer, “POG, CR, 5mth imp susp 2 yrs” would mean the client entered a plea of guilty (POG) to the charge, a conviction was recorded against them (CR), and the client was sentenced to 5 months imprisonment (5 mth imp) but the sentence was suspended for a period of 2 years (susp 2 yrs) provided the client commits no further crimes during that time.

 

[adamhovey1988]

I don’t know? What is going on. Here!