I'm told that Linguists believe that full stops have fallen out of fashion with young people because they 'signify an abrupt or angry tone of voice'
I'm definitely not angry
Does Generation Z feel intimidated Apparently so and they also dont use punctuation in their text messages. [Aargh! Delete that! Just kidding]
Is it the Americans that call full stops periods We have a different meaning for that
Are exclamation points open to misinterpretation [question mark deleted] Does that mean you are shouting Calm down
Wired.com [how to avoid the full stop in a URL] tells me "A semicolon in a text message is the equivalent of putting on makeup to go to the gym" I have no idea what that means
Is this what my mum used to say about minding my Ps and Qs (I always like to search for the derivation of obscure phrases but could find nothing definitive for this) [Are curly brackets punctuation If so I am not G Z friendly]
Adrian Mole had a go at understanding punctuation
"Pandora! / I adore ya / I implore ye / Don't ignore me."
James Joyce had this down to a fine art Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses counts out at a 3,687 word sentence So kids do streams of consciousness Ive heard my grandkids do that And some bloggers
Im glad Im not a teenager any more
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/david-crystal-on-the-myth-of-texting/
ReplyDeleteThis piece I’ve pasted is over ten years old! David Crystal got there years ago. Lazy researchers and lazy journalists!
But I agree, I’d hate to be a teenager again. Much better to be full of years and wisdom.
As for grandsons - one of them speaks in perfectly formed sentences and they’re logically sequenced. He’ll go far.