> I’m seriously asking, because it seems like an absurd expectation to me.
If you purposefully push it to absurde length, obviously it becomes an absurd expectation.
No one is asking you to disclaim everything you write. I am just pointing to you that if you can't be bothered to think about how what you write is going to be received, you shouldn't be surprised to be downvoted. You seem surprised that people don't care about what things mean to you when you communicate whereas it should be obvious. You are not writing for you after all but to be read.
> Not sure about that, I stop reading as whenever I encounter such lazy writing!
Lazy writing is an assumption, and I don't think it is a remotely safe one.
Keep in mind that there is a difference between the state of mind a person is in at the time they were writing a comment, and the state of mind they are in when they get called on what they say in their comment.
> As far as punctuation, ending periods actually have negative emotion in text vernacular now for younger audiences and should almost never be used in 1-1 messaging.
It seems that people read too much into the intent (imagined or real) in a text message rather than just the content.
As an older user, I perceive messages that use text spelling (e.g. u instead of you or prolly instead of probably) as unprofessional, but I don't let that get in the way of the conversation
it was incoherent ramblings! Its my first time writing something thats not technical documentation.
context:
my sister was talking to me about feeling stressed about going to college
i wrote this with speech to text. I have personally not read it yet. I shared it on twitter this weekend to get some feedback.
“Hey I rewrote what you wrote because it sucked. Got problems with that?”
I suppose the best solution to this problem would be a “late review” asking for an explanation, offering a solution, and hoping it doesn’t just get ignored, which is the easiest thing to do for the author.
> Been humbled too many times by people much, much smarter than me that wrote in smsesque. Have read too many apparently well-written texts that are nothing but bullshit written by ignorants.
I cannot imagine why you found them humbling. Ignorance or lack of skill are forgivable, but poor writing by someone who could do better but just doesn't care about their output or their audience is just lazy. If someone who could do better cannot be trusted with something as simple as writing a coherent message, why would you trust them with anything else?
> I think it’s weird that a punctuation mark inside a quote can end the sentence that contains the quote.
It doesn't. The end quote with a period inside it ends the sentence.
> I’d argue like this: in the above case there are two sentences
There aren't. English doesn't nest or overlap sentences. Ever. Therr are plenty of ways in which English combines multiple units which each could otherwise be their own sentences into more complex sentences, but none of them involve having something which remains a sentence inside a longer sentence.
Why does an author publish an unfinished thought? Do you regularily chat with people who send in the middle of their sentences?
I absolutely fucking hate
chatting with people who
do this sort of
stupid thing.
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