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Now Punctuation Is a Microaggression: Young People Find the Period "Intimidating" and a Sign of "Anger". So apparently all sentences must end with a smiley face :), or these little sissies will start cutting on themselves :) (www.msn.com)
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– CentipedeDemon 9 points ago +9 / -0

If we try to appease people who are offended by periods at the end of sentences, humanity will never make progress.

Why do these fuckers' worthless opinions even have a platform?

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– thehutman [S] 3 points ago +3 / -0

I guess we get to T.H.A.N.K. social media for this one.

If you're the type of person that needs every message to be perfectly grammatically correct, it turns out you might not be putting forward the vibe you think you are. According to linguists, the use of punctuation - specifically full stops - is intimidating to a lot of young people, because it comes off as a sign of 'anger' in social media messages.

By 'young people' we mean Generation Z, that cohort of TikTok users born after 1995, who have grown up messaging over text and social media platforms where correct punctuation isn't often used.

"If you send a text message without a full stop, it's already obvious that you've concluded the message. So if you add that additional marker for completion, they will read something into it and it tends to be a falling intonation or negative tone," tweeted Leiden University's Dr Lauren Fonteyn.

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