No Stupid Questions

Well, I only know that people who don't end their sentences properly sound like rambling idiots.

The idea of periods being rude or something is moronic.

no offense, but mature people wouldnt ask this question. its attention-seeking behavior often found in children.

If people want to abbreviate their words and phrases when they’re texting or whatever, fine. Skip the capitals and punctuation, fine. But it is never rude to use proper spelling and grammar, even when texting. Your friends need to unplug, read a book, and enrich their fucking brains.

Because old people like me 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.

I guess because people under 20 type like illiterates that if you type correctly, using proper punctuation and spelling and what not, they assume you have to be older.

I am only assume it’s because your written communication is of a higher standard than your contemporaries. Keep it up.

Older people grew up writing less than younger people have, because of texting, so they’re more accustomed to taking their time with the proprieties of grammar. Younger people began using grammar as a tone marker differently from how it had previously been used, so they tend to see a bigger difference between “no” and “No.” as an answer to a question than older people do. For younger people, the latter tends to seem more abrupt and final, which could come across rudely.

Because those of who grew up communicating a lot via the written word stopped feeling beholden to type using classic grammar rules like ending every sentence of every communication with a period no matter what.

The entire purpose of language is to express yourself, and people started noticing that their texts sounded friendlier if they sounded less abrupt, so they started typing that way.

You type according to traditional essay writing rules which is how older people learned to write, younger people learned to focus on producing natural sounding language and conversation.

This forces my own question

People can tell my age just by my punctuation or lack thereof?

The way you type is like any other form of self-expression. If others want to read into it or decide they don’t like it, that’s on them. Type however you like and don’t give it another thought.

because typing with poor grammer is more common on phones. lol.

type using full stops

wat?

If it makes you feel any better, this is the most 19 year old post ever.

It's about norms and vibes and nothing more. Their conclusion that you're over 19 has about as much validity and basis as the feeling they will win the next scratch-off ticket.

I feel like there's a fine line here between wanting to use proper grammar and thinking you're superior for doing so

Twenty years ago when I was your age, I felt the same way. People are just ignorant.

Cell phone grammar is primarily the absense of grammar. The thumbtyping generation has lost the ability to communicate in a precise, concise manner.

Sadly this also reflects other problems like attention deficits and horrible argumentation skills.

You're asking the wrong crowd. People likely think you're old because you talk to us too much.

I'm not sure if it's part of the reason, but you're sentences are all rather short, therefore the periods and commas are repeated a lot.

I have found that I always use proper punctuation in informal communication except for a period at the end of a message. If the last sentence is a question or exclamation, I'll use a question mark or exclamation point. But if it technically requires a period: usually nothing.

Then again, I am in my forties or fifties