• frunch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I can’t see why they wouldn’t be

    See how that sentence got that soft landing as opposed to this one that informs you of the nature of the statement it’s at the end of? The first one doesn’t direct you to get excited or to take the statement as a question, but it also doesn’t give the hard ending of a period. It lets the sentence “breathe”

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      7 months ago

      I don’t feel like it extends to long(er) form communication. Texting, absolutely.

      Hello

      is very different from

      Hello.

      in text. Or lol is “that’s funny” and lol period is more “fuck you.” Longer things makes punctuation more necessary.

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        7 months ago

        yea?

        this is an informal sentence

        This makes it seem like I’m in a professional environment.