Text language, like any language, is nuanced and evolving. If parents seem abrupt or cold in their responses, there’s a good reason for it. “And for some inexplicable reason, those periods at the end can sometimes feel cumulatively harsh – that, or I just outed myself as a severely oversensitive person.” ‘Yes.’ ‘Thx.’ etc.,” said Kristen Dickey, an ad sales executive in Los Angeles. While younger generations see the period as unnecessarily harsh or insincere, their parents do not, which creates a linguistic disconnect.
Conversely, a text ending with an exclamation point was seen as more sincere than including no punctuation. A study out of Binghamton University found that ending a text message with a period made the content seem less sincere than a text with no punctuation at all. Social scientists have confirmed similar findings in more rigorous research. The text responses that most often send people spiraling tend to end with periods: “Thanks.” “Lol.” “Sure.”ĭon’t even think about adding a few extra periods to transform “Thanks.” into “Thanks…” That will send the recipient into a tailspin: What does this mean? Are they mad at me? Not only do we all have something that gets under our skin, but there’s one in particular that seems to collectively infuriate us: the hostile period.Ī highly unscientific social media poll revealed that lots of people are reading perhaps too much into punctuation marks in texts.
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