> You can't really choose freely how to interpret them
Of course, you can.
That first moment of gut feeling is outside the control of your consciousness, but after that, it's a choice.
You can tell yourself, and persuade yourself, that you don't know the why the other person ended a sentence with a period. Because, the fact is, you don't.
Not to mention that an ending period is quite commonly added by dictation software, so it's not even certain that the other person added it by choice.
Furthermore, the myriad of social cues usually emerge in a whole package. You get to see a whole face, or a whole body, with the words, said with human voice. That's significantly more data than the presence of a period.
Of course, you can.
That first moment of gut feeling is outside the control of your consciousness, but after that, it's a choice.
You can tell yourself, and persuade yourself, that you don't know the why the other person ended a sentence with a period. Because, the fact is, you don't.
Not to mention that an ending period is quite commonly added by dictation software, so it's not even certain that the other person added it by choice.
Furthermore, the myriad of social cues usually emerge in a whole package. You get to see a whole face, or a whole body, with the words, said with human voice. That's significantly more data than the presence of a period.
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