Are full stops passive aggressive?

[Samas]

Are full stops really passive-aggressive now? According to my colleague they are, especially in text messages. Apparently, ending a sentence correctly is no longer “neutral” but somehow comes across as cold or hostile.

yabu= full stops are indeed PA
yanbu= of course they’re not

You will have to wrest my semicolons from my cold dead hands. And yes, I do use them in texts. Along with all other punctuation marks.
(edited for, um, misplaced hyphen!)

Nah, it really isn't 😂
Sounds like you just don't know many people 🤷‍♀️

Not about to start using kisses at the end of my messages to every woman I text. Would love it if someone else did and reported back on how it went down 😆

Yes it's a gen z thing
I found this out when my DD 20 asked me if I was upset with her
So I adapted my messages to her with no punctuation and use a new line each time instead
Everyone else gets the full works

Yes it's a Gen Z thing. I found this out when my DD 20 asked me if I was upset with her. So I adapted my messages to her with no punctuation (and use a new line each time instead). Everyone else gets the full works.

No way⸘

Or should I say,

NO WAY‽

Which is less offensive? 🤣

Yeah, I think the only people I know who end messages with an x are those I’d probably cross over the road to avoid if I wasn’t contractually obliged to interact with them.

Thankfully it hasn’t become a standard part of any of my core teams’ Teams messages

Can I do it to males, or will they start wondering if I 'like like' them?

It does seem stupid but I can see why some people might find a full stop an bit abrupt, especially if the person they are texting usually ends texts with a ‘’x’’ or uses emojis. If you don’t get either but instead you get a full stop it doesn’t come across as very warm. In formal writing it would obviously be a different context.

It is the umlaut or diaeresis (two dots over a letter) that is most alarming to me.
When it is over the letter 'o' it looks like a shouting face emoji. (Just as well I'm not in Germany!)

But full stops? I love 'em. They are is probably my favourite punctuation mark, although I am quite fond of the colon - I just wish they would give it a more pleasant name. 'Doubly Dots' would be nicer.

Mother of God, I truly despair at so much that’s apparently quite normal these days.
Even if some scientific test were to isolate atoms of passive aggression in punctuation, and prove the claim to be correct, so feckin what? You’ll survive it.
The thin-skinned people forever whingeing about things like this are perfectly happy to have created (for example) a pornified and ear-splitting cultural environment imposed on everybody, so I’ve no objection to open wounds caused to any of them by the odd comma (or, no doubt, the ‘élitist’ word illiterate, which I read has been banned, to avoid offence.)
😈 >evil cackle<

How would you know if the message was finished? Maybe they had more to

type.

Good grief!

I heard this too. If just makes me be more careful to end messages with a full stop.

So you said 😄

I mean this is Gen Z we are talking about isn’t it? So they will probably see it as ‘literal violence’ for which they require a ‘safe space’ to recover from the complex PTSD it causes them, using the last fidget spinner to cope.

So probably.

I presume that you can use full stops if your message has more than one sentence and it's just the final full stop that is deemed passive-aggressive?

Apparently not. You must move down a line, to indicate the end of a sentence.
What you do when there's a new paragraph is anyone's guess 🤔.

My elderly mother is now using exclamation marks with abandon. It is exhausting to read. Like receiving letters from a Spanish teenager c.1990.

My adult DC’s told me this a couple of years ago. However, they forgive me for doing it because I am old, so obviously I don’t know anything. 😁

I wouldn't pander to that.

This whole thread reads like a Daily Mail comment section. It's not about anxiety or mental health or thin skinned young people being triggered. You all, as old people, also have aspects of social etiquette that you follow otherwise you might be considered rude. It's rules of social etiquette changing over time.
You don't need a full stop for "clarity" in a whatsapp message because the line break serves as the full stop. If you also add a full stop then you've done it unnecessarily and on purpose so it's often read as abrupt and like you're trying to stop the flow of conversation. People still use full stops in the middle of messages and in other media like emails.

One of mine did when we messaged last night. In fact he used two. But it wasn't a work related message.

But "No is a complete sentence" is said on here so much!

I think if you put them after every word…Yes. They. Could. Be.

That's nucking futs.