Reality Check by Dave Whamond for October 17, 2018

Is that true? What does an exclamation point denote; violent screaming rage?

If you feel threatened by proper punctuation, how anxious does correct spelling make you feel?

Seems that I did read something about younger people interpreting a period this way in text messages. More idiocy to ignore.

Grandpa is the only one who comes a cross as sane.

Where I come from, we call it good punctuation…!

“And I don’t care how they spell things on the Internet. // When you email me, you spell the whole word out. // And I don’t care that your cell phone has a camera in it….” — Strong Bad

Now some people end everything with”LOL” whether it’s supposed to be funny or not.

Time to be politically incorrect. So a period is a micro-aggression? That explains the monthly visits.

whenever you start a sentence with ‘in my day’, young folks immediately tune you out

The kid will be coming down with text neck syndrome.

Friggin’ punctuation

Taken from a Twitter exchange on Brent Spiner’s TL. If you’re gonna criticize tech communication, at least acknowledge where you’re material’s coming from.

Everything comes back around,

it will be nice when sanity and politeness come back into fashion again.

So, this is a period piece?!?

So, if I use a period, I’m being aggressive? I should just let my sentences run on and on together and everyone will imply the period somewhere or just keep reading, never knowing when the sentence ends what about commas, is it okay to use commas or do they have some special meaning Is it okay to use spaces between words What about a capital letter for a new sentence or is that taboo how will I ever know when to stop typing without a period after all I don’t want to appear aggressive what about using……………to continue I am so glad I don’t text I could never keep up with the rules!!!!!!!

Wow, if this is really true, I wish the younger people I text would have let me know. My kids aren’t exactly subtle with me when it comes to this kind of stuff.

How old is Grandpa? In my day we called punctuation “punctuation.” The word “grammar” was used for grammar, and didn’t include either punctuation or spelling, as it now seems to in many people’s usage. On the other hand, the kid is right about periods in texts, which, as with telegrams in the days of yore, are allowed to have slightly different rules than formal discourse.

Yeahandrunonsentencesarealltheragenow!

There is never a good excuse for bad grammar!

I’m not…

A text-er .

Nor a Twitter-er .

Judging by your President, the exclamation mark ! is now the replacement for the period . …

Who knew? Guess I’m just happy to be a Luddite .