Are full stops passive aggressive?

Yeah

Yeah!

Yeah.

They all feel different

The point is that without proper punctuation the tone can be misinterpreted too. 🤔

I honestly cannot believe that every single communication has to be scrutinised and analysed to guess the psychological state of the sender.
Absolute madness.
Paranoia rules.
Just use proper punctuation all the time and there isn't an issue is there?

My kids told me that a full stop at the end is now taken as having the final word. Like saying. "This is my opinion and I don't want to discuss it. Full stop." It closes a discussion.

Of course not. It's punctuation.

Excellent use of a SC in your post too. Kudos!

Yes, I concur that we do need some punctuation-The point I was making, is that individuals, have their own unique style of writing-It's the tone of a message, which matters most -
So, for example, I used an old friend's usual writing style - She only ever, adds a fullstop at the end of a sentence, when she's upset! Like where it states in the Bible, that God judges us on our hearts-I'm saying it's the vibe, of a message, which is more imperative, than mere punctuation! I'm not saying that all punctuation, is unimportant! Some have misunderstood where I was coming from...

Is this a gen Z thing? They are now triggered by the actual violence of the smallest punctuation mark? (Is it the smallest?)

So

Fuck off

is fine but

Fuck off.

Is worse?

I mean, what is wrong with these people? Is it the smacking? Should we never have let that go out if fashion, or is it because smoking whilst pregnant became frowned upon? Where did we go wrong? Why are all these youths absolute Walter the Softies with no resilience?

Oh yes I do this too. I thought I was the only one; apparently we are both being highly offensive!

Excellent.

I use the occasional semi-colon in text messages. That would clearly have minds blowing all over.

Nobody is being 'rude' or 'insulting' to you, that's more inappropriate (exaggerated) word use.
You do have to accept that the importance of punctuation isn't just opinion though, it's a requirement for coherent sentences.

I think I am quite a stickler for using punctuation, but I have just looked at our family WhatsApp thread, and none is us have used full stops. Funny, how you quickly fall into a way of doing things. DD, 40 something has the common habit of posting a sentence in 2 or 3 WhatsApp posts, so none of the posts end the sentence.

It's contextual.

If, for example, a work colleague sends me a work message asking if I've seen the stationery cupboard keys, no-one sensible would quibble with the following reply from me, despite it finishing with a full stop:

1. "No, not seen them. Helen needed them yesterday, so ask Helen if she passed them to someone else."

However, you should worry if I send back,

2. No.

or

3. Ask Helen.

In short messages, it's become customary not to end the last sentence with a full stop. When people who've fallen into that custom revert to using precise grammar in very short sentences, that full stop is meant to convey some finality to the whole conversation.

To go back to our example with the stationery cupboard keys, the full stop means I'm not willing to engage in further messages about the keys, because it's outside my working hours, and I don't see why Steve is asking me about where things are at the office instead of getting off his arse and looking for them with his eyes?

But I can't say that, so I'm ending the message by slamming the full stop key down hard.

I was 15 and had a lot to say and a job that paid very little! I spent hours staring at texts wondering what letters I could take out but still have the text be legible.

You're extremely rude & insulting, but at least I respect everyone enough to know, we can all agree to disagree!

I've never used text speak, even when texts were expensive. I just got good at editing / writing succinctly!

That's my dhs role, all text messages receive a 👍

i think it’s because if you can be bothered to put a full stop then why not an ‘x’

I'm afraid you're wrong. Correct punctuation isn't anything other than necessary.

God knows what the world is coming to!

The thing is my teens know the correct way, neither of them are stupid, they are both bilingual, one of them entered a national linguistics olympiad without even really knowing what it was and ended up in the top 10 in the country.

It's a societal norm amongst their age group not to use fullstops in texts unless you are annoyed. They are fully aware of how and when to use them in school/for important matters. It isn't that they can't it's that they don't.

When I was a teen and used to take all of the vowels out of words to fit my txt n2 1 msg bcz it wz rly xspnsve it wasn't because I couldn't spell. It was just the norm at the time.

I'm angry at stupid people who think punctuation is "a matter of opinion".
(Not really, I don't care about stupid people — just wish they didn't inflict their stupidity on the rest of us).

Well someone clearly forgot to go to school, or only attended the 'unnecessary exclamation mark' lesson.

Oh dear.

I'm so glad that I'm no longer on the teaching register: "No, John - the marker won't think you're rude if you use full stops in your coursework."

Again, it's not an opinion.