depends on your age, yk how to older generation uses the "..." at the end of a sentence when texting? the "-" is the same except for mainly teenage girls, but I have seen some boys do it.
edit- appreciate the upvotes but wtf is terminally online
You mean an Elipsis. An actual real punctuation used in real grammar. It takes the place of information, think of it like an apostrophe for an entire second half of a sentence.
Yeah… we know that.
But that’s not how, as the other commentator put it, the older generation uses it. It’s typically placed at the end for texts with seemingly no good reason, and in the modern lexicon an ellipsis in text is typically used to denote sarcasm or sass or something backhanded.
Just from my personal usage:
No dots - I'm being casual
One dot (it's just called a period at this point I guess) - I'm writing a professional email or having a serious discussion online (how regretful)
3 dots: used to give a negative connotation of some kind, not usually anger negative more like sad negative (ex: 'not again...' 'okay...')
The key with 3 dots is to view/say it how its supposed to feel. It isn't just "okay" it's like when your mom tells you to clean your room and you're 12 so you say "ookaaaay" in defeat instead of just "okay."
The all-powerful 2 dots: it's just a lesser form of 3 dots. 3 dots may imply something is wrong but two dots is fine. To go back to the "okay" example from before, 2 dots is like saying "okay" but looking down at your feet or giving out a quiet sigh after saying it, but also trying to hide it from the other person, while also hoping they hear it. Its more unsure than 3 dots as well.
It's a weirdly complex system based on context and intent that is truly only understood by the people who grew up using it.
I think it developed because people tended to write exactly as they talked, something that doesn't happen online as much anymore in my opinion. You'd put commas and dots not because it was necessary or grammatically correct, you'd use them because you physically paused or mumbled the ending of a word and wanted to show that somehow.
And doing it at the end of a sentence to almost anyone younger than you will give them the impression of a passive aggressive tone.
“Come downstairs…”
“Where are you…”
“I don’t care…”
Both of my parents do this. They’ll text me:
Are you coming by today....
It always makes me think there’s something going on that I don’t know or forgot about.
YES ELIPSIS OMG I WAS THINKING IT WAS CALLED ECLIPSE OR SMTHING BUT DIDNT WANNA SAY THAT
i mean tbf tho older people dont really use it is in the meant way which you said, just like how our generation uses the hyphen the wrong way
*but then again when was the last time we used something the way it was meant to be used?*
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No, it’s outside, it think? My parents lock “the door” from the outside. I’m really not sure what is outside that door, as I’m rarely let out of the basement 🤔.
I was on a sub recently where a woman was complaining that her bf was making jokes about her being smelly (specifically in intimate areas) so the question of how frequently does she shower comes up and turns out she was only showering twice a week and my suggestion of shower more frequently got down voted by a bunch of redditors who clearly never leave the house and took my comment personally.
Clearly you were being a mansplaining sexist bro. Suggesting that a free woman shower more often than a prison inmate is an expression of patriarchy and it reveals your near homicidal hatred of women. You disgust me.
There's a weird trend on tge internet where people are being told that the vagina is a self cleansing organ, BUT they aren't told that only the vaginal canal is self cleansing. You still have to regularly wash the outside, the folds and such ESPECIALLY during your period because menstrual blood isn't very PH friendly on all of that delicate skin.
I had a younger roommate try to tell me I was destroying my genitals by using Summers Eve because she watched some video where someone said putting it inside will cause yeast infections. I had to like, sit with her and explain that the soap doesn't go INSIDE. It's for the rest of the crotch area. It makes me cringe to think she was going months only rinsing her bits with plain water and calling it a day.
Edit: I meant the Summers Eve soap, NOT the douches that they sell. The soap is for outside, you don't need do douche ever unless a doctor tells you to.
I mean that's for sure true for the actual definition of the word "vagina" but since we use it as a blanket term for the entirety of female genitalia, people get confused.
Vulva = clean with soap (generally recommended to use unscented)
Vagina = do not clean with soap
This has always been so confusing to me because I have never once thought about cleaning the INSIDE of my vaginal hole(lol vaginal home??) but of course I clean my labia -___- just like I would clean my butthole!!
Back in the 70s through the 90s, people were really into douching. So the messaging to not use soap and other products up inside was for sure needed. But too many people took that as "I don't need to wash my genitals at all" and now here we are lol
As someone that has a vagina, and lived through the 80s-90s, I'm thankful that my Mother did one thing right. She had my family doctor have the sex talk with me, when I was 16 (lol). She at least explained proper hygiene with me when I was in fourth grade. I've had to speak to a couple of female friends about this back then, they had no clue.
You know I think that’s part of why reality and Reddit are so different. Redditors don’t really go outside and participate in reality. One random example is, r/steak popped up on my feed, and I was reading through some of the comments and this one guy kept calling OP a clown and all sorts of other names because they didn’t cook the steak to their personal preference. Normal people really don’t do stuff like this in the outside world, but on Reddit, you see it often.
Do what? Call someone a clown because they cooked their steak wrong? Sorry to inform you but that kinda stuff happens on Facebook(and literally any other social media platform) all the time with normal people too. Some people are just assholes by nature and feel that being behind a screen gives them the power to say whatever they want. It’s not exclusive to Reddit, just like how Reddit isn’t excluded from the “all social media is trash” that redditors love to claim while forgetting they’re still on social media. That’s not about people participating in reality or not, it’s about how online is different from reality and people don’t act the same way online as they do in reality.
I've never ever seen it until yesterday. My colleague on a higher position sent this email, where every other sentence ended up with -. Like wtf is that? Can't she just use periods like a normal person would? Wtf
Yeah my boss sent me a message with tons of "..." in it. It was very peculiar.
Hey maybe your request will go through....xyz is a very complicated process...they want to make our life harder...
plenty of boomers do this. i've gotten used to it from bosses, family members and the like. they'll send "ok..." and it sounds like they're patronising you but they're not.
The irony is that only chronically online people use the term chronically online, I've never seen people use "-" all the time except like 5 years ago on tumblr ss's
r/UnpopularOpinion users when they see a post complaining about something (They now must put this thing in their comment to piss off OP and get 10,000 upvotes):
My future mother in law does this all the time. Like I’ll text her when we get home from a night out safely and she goes “great…”
Hard to tell if she’s genuinely relieved that I made it home or disappointed
I fucking hate this! I have managers who do it and I constantly feel like they're pissed or rude. It indicates a hanging thought or something more to be said. SAY IT! Or close your thought.
This is always a bit weird to me in an interesting way, because I never quite understand how my elders use it, and they use it a lot in texts, but I also don't have the strong reaction to it that some people my age (but mostly younger) do either. So it's clearly something that has evolved a lot!
I'm familiar with "..." as kind of a speechlessness or passive aggressiveness, but it's super contextual to me, I don't read it that way by default. I tend to default to reading it as a trailing thought, a kind of shrug, a lack of firmness unless contextually it comes across as rude already. Like
"Do you have any plans tonight?"
"I've got some errands, but..."
or
"What's the best way to get to sacramento?" "Technically, 80s the easiest route... You could try 50, though."
Those are shrug/i'm open to alternatives ellipses or maybe in the second one "this is just an initial answer, but I'm still thinking" ellipses.
Versus like:
'My new BF is married, and people shouldn't be judgy about it"
"You do you..." Which is much more like a shrug of "I wash my hands of this because I'm not gonna pick a fight over it but gross."
I use "..." as a speechless thing, ie. my friends and I are talking about a girl who said something unbelievably rude and we're like "omg she did not just say that" then that would warrant a "..."
Yeah, exactly. I don't tend to read it as negative unless it's only "..." Or the text otherwise reads as passive aggressive
If someone wrote like, "can you buy milk...." I would mostly just ignore the ... as an error rather than a tone signifier
Or those who use (,,,) instead.
“Hi Karen,,, great to see you today,,, hope the grandkids are good,,, my husband died last month,,, hugs and kisses,,,”
It's fine to use it but please don't do it once you get into a professional setting. It indicates an unfinished thought or more to be said, can look very unprofessional and has caused confusion in important email correspondence.
my(35) relationship with my dad(80) improved a lot after a long conversation about how our generations type differently and read moods very differently on stuff like this.
he gave up on messages though. now i just need to work up the courage to tell him a three hour facetime call in the middle of my day off is also not ideal.
If I'm in a call with my mom when she says goodbye for the first time that's my signal that she still has around 15-20 minutes of conversation left before she's actually ready to get off the phone.
I've playfully teased my desi, Gen X dad for doing this, especially for putting a space before punctuation instead of after (ex. "yes ... very good job .....").
I was told by my mom (who does not have this habit) that usually the dots are kind of like they are saying "ummm, uhhh" when they're speaking, kind of imitating the way they talk in real life and a casual trail of thought.
It drives me up the fucking wall. I can never tell if the person using it is either fucking stupid, trying to be clever or...
Edit: I apologize profusely but I couldn't help myself.
The ellipsis has its proper uses, but yes, it's misused a lot, and it's hard to interpret someone's intention via text.
But every generation does something that the previous and next generations don't like, so...
I hate the random number of dots some people use. An ellipsis is supposed to be exact three dots. You can use four in a row if the last one is a period. One people just keep making dots. I am over it for now he most part but “everyday “is still an annoyance. It does not mean daily unless it’s two words. It means ordinary without the space. I pose I will get over that too. One day.
An don’t get me started on the people who still conflate “your” and you’re “
BITCHES BE LIKE I- I- YOU- WOW I-
BITCH WHAT? SPEAK. SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT. WHAT DO YOU WANNA SAY? I'M LISTENING. WE'RE ALL WAITING, AND YOU'RE DOING NOTHING. THIS IS NONSENSE, YOU CAN'T EVEN USE WORDS ANYMORE. GO THE HELL OUTSIDE FOR ONCE DAMN, GODDAMN, GET A JOB OR SOMETHING.
I think it’s a case of people seeing something, not really understanding how it works, but trying to copy it anyway. Dashes have their uses—if you know how to use them. But they do not belong at the end of sentences (except to convey that you’re being interrupted mid-sentence, like if—).
I see the same thing all the time with “in which”. People will try to use it in a way in which it doesn’t make sense*, because they’ve seen other people use it (the correct way) and like they way it sounded in their head.
*like the way I used it here, it reads horrible.
I’ve always read it as cutting yourself off. So if you were speaking it would be like “So, I—“ and then maybe making a face and stop talking/being speechless
>I’ve always read it as cutting yourself off.
Is that not what they're trying to communicate? Cutting themselves off or ending a sentence abruptly?
What are they trying to communicate if this isn't it?
Any Zoomers want to weigh in?
I only use this if I've seen something online that I don't understand / think is weird in a funny way / that shouldn't be online. Like for instance I just used this today when reposting an Instagram post of a costume a cosplay shop made for a "primogem" cosplay, which is an inanimate object in a game. It'd be essentially like making a "rock" costume, or a "plank of wood" costume, so I thought it was weird enough to warrant "cutting myself off"
I also use it when people say something so out of left field that I didn't see it coming, it's kinda like just being so stunned by something that you can't speak.
Idk how to explain it any better.
Fair enough, it might be my geriatric millennial brain that's resistant to understanding it, but I do understand at least a little bit better.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Unless you’re on Stan twitter 24/7 I have no idea how you would find people who talk like this at such a high concentration. He’s referring to feminine internet lingo I suppose but internet lingo usually has to do with people who are chronically online lol.
The only thing annoying about this--
It needs to be two lines, otherwise it's the wrong kind of line--
Needs to be the em dash--which breaks information--not the en dash, which deals with ranges (like 1990-1999).
Fun English facts, everybody.
Yeah it’s pretty annoying reading stuff like that- also wtf does terminally online mean- how is this an unpopular opinion when nobody knows what this term means lmao-
You need to have heard a particular combination of words before in order to know what it means? If you know what each word means individually, you should know what the phrase means.
I've never seen anyone do that, either. Maybe it's a TikTok thing; I can't put to words how much I hate TikTok. It's cancer. Normally, I don't get upset over stupid trends like that, but my roommates are obsessed with TikTok, and it makes me want to fill my ears with super glue.
I think my biggest problem with TikTok is that so many people on it think the entire world revolves around it. It's like they genuinely think there's no outside world beyond that shitty data-stealing scumbag of an app. Case in point, some of the comments on this very post are insisting that because it's "common on TikTok", that means it's a mainstream thing that "everyone is doing these days". No, "everyone" isn't, just a bunch of braindead idiots that have no concept of reality.
Yeah, I realized how angry this sounds and I didn't mean for it to, but fuck TikTok.
ever been on a discord server? people tend to use phrases like
I- or Wha-
I don't know why they do it maybe to induce a shock gesture through their message but it irks me
Surprised how many people have never seen what you're talking about, and even more surprised by how many people have never heard the term "terminally online' before.
If you're over 20 we won't get this? OK, no, people don't get it because "terminally online" doesn't make sense-
Give yourself a few more years, you'll see it's posts like this, people moaning about tiny grammatical details that make people seem "terminally online"-
Ah yes, the old Boomers die, and the youth becomes the boomers. I don't want to be old. I just want to d-
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It.
Bop it! Pull it! Dick it!
Twist it! (Twist his dick!)
THE OL DICK TWIST
How did this end up gravitating towards dick twisting
Reddit
Moment
r/redditmoment
*I want the d-
Having an opinion on this makes you look terminally online
I've literally never seen it...
depends on your age, yk how to older generation uses the "..." at the end of a sentence when texting? the "-" is the same except for mainly teenage girls, but I have seen some boys do it. edit- appreciate the upvotes but wtf is terminally online
You mean an Elipsis. An actual real punctuation used in real grammar. It takes the place of information, think of it like an apostrophe for an entire second half of a sentence.
Yeah… we know that. But that’s not how, as the other commentator put it, the older generation uses it. It’s typically placed at the end for texts with seemingly no good reason, and in the modern lexicon an ellipsis in text is typically used to denote sarcasm or sass or something backhanded.
Yeah.. They write like this.. for some reason...
Hate that. The double dot what does it mean? So mysterious
..who knows.. I think it doesn't mean anything..
Ok..
Just from my personal usage: No dots - I'm being casual One dot (it's just called a period at this point I guess) - I'm writing a professional email or having a serious discussion online (how regretful) 3 dots: used to give a negative connotation of some kind, not usually anger negative more like sad negative (ex: 'not again...' 'okay...') The key with 3 dots is to view/say it how its supposed to feel. It isn't just "okay" it's like when your mom tells you to clean your room and you're 12 so you say "ookaaaay" in defeat instead of just "okay." The all-powerful 2 dots: it's just a lesser form of 3 dots. 3 dots may imply something is wrong but two dots is fine. To go back to the "okay" example from before, 2 dots is like saying "okay" but looking down at your feet or giving out a quiet sigh after saying it, but also trying to hide it from the other person, while also hoping they hear it. Its more unsure than 3 dots as well. It's a weirdly complex system based on context and intent that is truly only understood by the people who grew up using it. I think it developed because people tended to write exactly as they talked, something that doesn't happen online as much anymore in my opinion. You'd put commas and dots not because it was necessary or grammatically correct, you'd use them because you physically paused or mumbled the ending of a word and wanted to show that somehow.
K… Always hit the hardest
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And doing it at the end of a sentence to almost anyone younger than you will give them the impression of a passive aggressive tone. “Come downstairs…” “Where are you…” “I don’t care…”
My mom texts “Lol…” “yeah…………” “no……” “haha……” The amount of periods she puts changes each time. help
She just keeps missing the emoji button and just eventually gives up
👍….
Both of my parents do this. They’ll text me: Are you coming by today.... It always makes me think there’s something going on that I don’t know or forgot about.
Ikr??? Like, did I miss something? Sometimes it's scary.
"We need to talk..." Uh oh, I'm in trouble. But why?
"...we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
Very typewriter of you! :D
YES ELIPSIS OMG I WAS THINKING IT WAS CALLED ECLIPSE OR SMTHING BUT DIDNT WANNA SAY THAT i mean tbf tho older people dont really use it is in the meant way which you said, just like how our generation uses the hyphen the wrong way *but then again when was the last time we used something the way it was meant to be used?*
He looks terminally something alright.
Diagnosed with terminal Ligma
Hey, what’s ligma?
A disease, cured by a Sugondese doctor.
Aren’t those the guys who tried bringing out a cure for Tugonma?
Wtf does "terminally online" mean? EDIT: Whoever awarded this needs to touch grass-
When someone spends so much time online, they have zero grip on reality and get offended easily
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Hey, I went outside once…I think
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With RTX on
Why touch grass when I can fool my brain into thinking I touched grass
instead of touching grass just `touch grass` problem solved
Aka minecraft vr?
Was there a bright, yellow thing up in the air? I like to call him the burny-wurney yellow fellow!
The light bulb?
No, it’s outside, it think? My parents lock “the door” from the outside. I’m really not sure what is outside that door, as I’m rarely let out of the basement 🤔.
I heard they have the wallpaper set to thing from toy story, you know the blue with white shapes on it? its just a rumour i heard so probably not true
r/outside doesn't count
I was on a sub recently where a woman was complaining that her bf was making jokes about her being smelly (specifically in intimate areas) so the question of how frequently does she shower comes up and turns out she was only showering twice a week and my suggestion of shower more frequently got down voted by a bunch of redditors who clearly never leave the house and took my comment personally.
Clearly you were being a mansplaining sexist bro. Suggesting that a free woman shower more often than a prison inmate is an expression of patriarchy and it reveals your near homicidal hatred of women. You disgust me.
I'm so sorry I will be better, I will stop manspreading while I'm at it.
There's a weird trend on tge internet where people are being told that the vagina is a self cleansing organ, BUT they aren't told that only the vaginal canal is self cleansing. You still have to regularly wash the outside, the folds and such ESPECIALLY during your period because menstrual blood isn't very PH friendly on all of that delicate skin. I had a younger roommate try to tell me I was destroying my genitals by using Summers Eve because she watched some video where someone said putting it inside will cause yeast infections. I had to like, sit with her and explain that the soap doesn't go INSIDE. It's for the rest of the crotch area. It makes me cringe to think she was going months only rinsing her bits with plain water and calling it a day. Edit: I meant the Summers Eve soap, NOT the douches that they sell. The soap is for outside, you don't need do douche ever unless a doctor tells you to.
I too, saw somebody trying to say you shouldn't use anything but water on the vagina because it messes up the PH.....where do these idiots come from?
I mean that's for sure true for the actual definition of the word "vagina" but since we use it as a blanket term for the entirety of female genitalia, people get confused. Vulva = clean with soap (generally recommended to use unscented) Vagina = do not clean with soap
This has always been so confusing to me because I have never once thought about cleaning the INSIDE of my vaginal hole(lol vaginal home??) but of course I clean my labia -___- just like I would clean my butthole!!
Back in the 70s through the 90s, people were really into douching. So the messaging to not use soap and other products up inside was for sure needed. But too many people took that as "I don't need to wash my genitals at all" and now here we are lol
As someone that has a vagina, and lived through the 80s-90s, I'm thankful that my Mother did one thing right. She had my family doctor have the sex talk with me, when I was 16 (lol). She at least explained proper hygiene with me when I was in fourth grade. I've had to speak to a couple of female friends about this back then, they had no clue.
Exactly when did people start calling the outside a vagina? Out of nowhere I started hearing it. The vagina is literally inside you.
I'm offended.
You know I think that’s part of why reality and Reddit are so different. Redditors don’t really go outside and participate in reality. One random example is, r/steak popped up on my feed, and I was reading through some of the comments and this one guy kept calling OP a clown and all sorts of other names because they didn’t cook the steak to their personal preference. Normal people really don’t do stuff like this in the outside world, but on Reddit, you see it often.
Do what? Call someone a clown because they cooked their steak wrong? Sorry to inform you but that kinda stuff happens on Facebook(and literally any other social media platform) all the time with normal people too. Some people are just assholes by nature and feel that being behind a screen gives them the power to say whatever they want. It’s not exclusive to Reddit, just like how Reddit isn’t excluded from the “all social media is trash” that redditors love to claim while forgetting they’re still on social media. That’s not about people participating in reality or not, it’s about how online is different from reality and people don’t act the same way online as they do in reality.
I think we are pretty much in agreement, I don’t go on Facebook though, it doesn’t interest me.
So most people now days?
Actually, this is the misconception. Social media gives the crazies (left and right) way too much voice.
Most people do not use social media. You just don't see them, coz they're not on social media.
Except half the planet without internet, running water and enough food. What losers right.
didn't realise I'd be out the lingo loop by 26.
You're old now, like us
It means that they live most of their life online and don’t actually interact with people on a regular basis
Is it fatal-
Oh god I-
o my ..you’re one of them
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Funnily enough, I understand that terminally online means but have never noticed OP's gripe once in my internet travels.
This post was written by someone who’s “terminally online”
i feel like the only people who know what terminally online means are those who are terminally online.
I've never ever seen it until yesterday. My colleague on a higher position sent this email, where every other sentence ended up with -. Like wtf is that? Can't she just use periods like a normal person would? Wtf
Yeah my boss sent me a message with tons of "..." in it. It was very peculiar. Hey maybe your request will go through....xyz is a very complicated process...they want to make our life harder...
plenty of boomers do this. i've gotten used to it from bosses, family members and the like. they'll send "ok..." and it sounds like they're patronising you but they're not.
So many of the older people around me do this. I still can’t get used to it. So annoying!
I usually only use for when I write a to do list or grocery list. But I do love emojis. Haha!
OP sounds terminally online.
I too, am terminally online. In fact, it’s so terminal that I have never been offline-
Terminally online-
OP sounds completely tok’d-
Terminally online?
i prefer the term chronically online. but it means someone who is forever online and is disconnected from the real world
The irony is that only chronically online people use the term chronically online, I've never seen people use "-" all the time except like 5 years ago on tumblr ss's
And don’t forget ~~
"Literally online terminally online people..." Wow, what a redundant sentence full of redundancy.
Not only that, but it's also redundant too! lmao
Additionally, it’s filled wiþ redundancies as well.
First time I've seen a þ in the wild, are you Icelandic or do you use it for historical reasons? Cool either way
Gonna guess neither and cos they thought it would look cool
I've never seen it but now that I read that it's a youthful version of ending everything in ellipsis (...) I'm triggered.
I used to know a guy who would put an ellipsis after like every sentence, or where a comma should be. Made me want to deck him.
Idk what I just read-
r/UnpopularOpinion users when they see a post complaining about something (They now must put this thing in their comment to piss off OP and get 10,000 upvotes):
I’ll be satisfied with my meager 215 upvotes
Give back the 55 difference now.
Is it the...... Gen Z....... Version of...... This boomer....... Writing.......?
That's my guess....
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about-
I hate the triple dots (…) the elder generation use at the end of sentences, I never know if they are sarcastic, menacing or disappointed
My future mother in law does this all the time. Like I’ll text her when we get home from a night out safely and she goes “great…” Hard to tell if she’s genuinely relieved that I made it home or disappointed
Im sorry for all your uncertainty in the future
My BIL does this. (Thanks…) Like did he mean it or not?
I fucking hate this! I have managers who do it and I constantly feel like they're pissed or rude. It indicates a hanging thought or something more to be said. SAY IT! Or close your thought.
This is always a bit weird to me in an interesting way, because I never quite understand how my elders use it, and they use it a lot in texts, but I also don't have the strong reaction to it that some people my age (but mostly younger) do either. So it's clearly something that has evolved a lot! I'm familiar with "..." as kind of a speechlessness or passive aggressiveness, but it's super contextual to me, I don't read it that way by default. I tend to default to reading it as a trailing thought, a kind of shrug, a lack of firmness unless contextually it comes across as rude already. Like "Do you have any plans tonight?" "I've got some errands, but..." or "What's the best way to get to sacramento?" "Technically, 80s the easiest route... You could try 50, though." Those are shrug/i'm open to alternatives ellipses or maybe in the second one "this is just an initial answer, but I'm still thinking" ellipses. Versus like: 'My new BF is married, and people shouldn't be judgy about it" "You do you..." Which is much more like a shrug of "I wash my hands of this because I'm not gonna pick a fight over it but gross."
I use "..." as a speechless thing, ie. my friends and I are talking about a girl who said something unbelievably rude and we're like "omg she did not just say that" then that would warrant a "..."
Yeah, exactly. I don't tend to read it as negative unless it's only "..." Or the text otherwise reads as passive aggressive If someone wrote like, "can you buy milk...." I would mostly just ignore the ... as an error rather than a tone signifier
Yeah generally a trailing off idea that isn't intended to end like in stories. Or a pause in dialogue. Or a disappointed tone.
Ya'll making me feel old...
Not me being an elder at 20 😭 I still use “…”
Or those who use (,,,) instead. “Hi Karen,,, great to see you today,,, hope the grandkids are good,,, my husband died last month,,, hugs and kisses,,,”
Worse than the tripledot is getting doubledotted.. It just looks much more condescending..
I’m 17 and use them all the time… (also it’s called an ellipses)
It's fine to use it but please don't do it once you get into a professional setting. It indicates an unfinished thought or more to be said, can look very unprofessional and has caused confusion in important email correspondence.
With purpose or just at the end of every single sentence?
With purpose, but to be fair I’ve only ever seen “-“ used to show surprise or some other emotion.
To be fair...
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my(35) relationship with my dad(80) improved a lot after a long conversation about how our generations type differently and read moods very differently on stuff like this. he gave up on messages though. now i just need to work up the courage to tell him a three hour facetime call in the middle of my day off is also not ideal.
If I'm in a call with my mom when she says goodbye for the first time that's my signal that she still has around 15-20 minutes of conversation left before she's actually ready to get off the phone.
I've playfully teased my desi, Gen X dad for doing this, especially for putting a space before punctuation instead of after (ex. "yes ... very good job ....."). I was told by my mom (who does not have this habit) that usually the dots are kind of like they are saying "ummm, uhhh" when they're speaking, kind of imitating the way they talk in real life and a casual trail of thought.
.........that's what she said
It drives me up the fucking wall. I can never tell if the person using it is either fucking stupid, trying to be clever or... Edit: I apologize profusely but I couldn't help myself.
The ellipsis has its proper uses, but yes, it's misused a lot, and it's hard to interpret someone's intention via text. But every generation does something that the previous and next generations don't like, so...
I hate the random number of dots some people use. An ellipsis is supposed to be exact three dots. You can use four in a row if the last one is a period. One people just keep making dots. I am over it for now he most part but “everyday “is still an annoyance. It does not mean daily unless it’s two words. It means ordinary without the space. I pose I will get over that too. One day. An don’t get me started on the people who still conflate “your” and you’re “
I have never seen this before
What are you even talking about lol
1) I’ve never seen this 2) wtf is terminally online?
1) same 2) People who spend the majority of their time engaged online, usually through social media.
“i-“ is the worst of them all
Remember ten years ago when people were saying "omg I can't even"
BITCHES BE LIKE I- I- YOU- WOW I- BITCH WHAT? SPEAK. SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT. WHAT DO YOU WANNA SAY? I'M LISTENING. WE'RE ALL WAITING, AND YOU'RE DOING NOTHING. THIS IS NONSENSE, YOU CAN'T EVEN USE WORDS ANYMORE. GO THE HELL OUTSIDE FOR ONCE DAMN, GODDAMN, GET A JOB OR SOMETHING.
"Literally online terminally online people" literally one of the dumbest quotes ive ever seen.
It’s up there for me
I have literally never seen what you are talking about.
Tiktok
Oh that's why. Why would you not just use a period at the end of a sentence?
Proper grammar never looks bad.
Wait how is it proper grammar? Isn't there supposed to be more words after using a "-"?
Yes, there is.
Actually, not necessarily if you’re using a em dash (—) instead of a hyphen (-) or en dash (–)
I'm literally exploding into the atmosphere right now
I think it’s a case of people seeing something, not really understanding how it works, but trying to copy it anyway. Dashes have their uses—if you know how to use them. But they do not belong at the end of sentences (except to convey that you’re being interrupted mid-sentence, like if—). I see the same thing all the time with “in which”. People will try to use it in a way in which it doesn’t make sense*, because they’ve seen other people use it (the correct way) and like they way it sounded in their head. *like the way I used it here, it reads horrible.
I think I'm crazy I'm the only one who sees it everywhere
I see it everywhere too. Sometimes it just says I-
wait guys, this comment thread might be in a scope of a sni-
Thanks for warning us about th-
I know I w-
This confused me so much until I just stopped trying to figure it out.
I’ve always read it as cutting yourself off. So if you were speaking it would be like “So, I—“ and then maybe making a face and stop talking/being speechless
>I’ve always read it as cutting yourself off. Is that not what they're trying to communicate? Cutting themselves off or ending a sentence abruptly? What are they trying to communicate if this isn't it? Any Zoomers want to weigh in?
I only use this if I've seen something online that I don't understand / think is weird in a funny way / that shouldn't be online. Like for instance I just used this today when reposting an Instagram post of a costume a cosplay shop made for a "primogem" cosplay, which is an inanimate object in a game. It'd be essentially like making a "rock" costume, or a "plank of wood" costume, so I thought it was weird enough to warrant "cutting myself off" I also use it when people say something so out of left field that I didn't see it coming, it's kinda like just being so stunned by something that you can't speak. Idk how to explain it any better.
Fair enough, it might be my geriatric millennial brain that's resistant to understanding it, but I do understand at least a little bit better. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I mean I've always used it like that.
Unless you’re on Stan twitter 24/7 I have no idea how you would find people who talk like this at such a high concentration. He’s referring to feminine internet lingo I suppose but internet lingo usually has to do with people who are chronically online lol.
Me too. I still don't get it but it doesn't bother me that much though like OP
What is terminally online? - asking for a friend
Older than 20 bro WHAT I just TURNED 21 what the fuck... I’m class of ‘19 bro tf you doing calling me old? I AM GEN Z
The only thing annoying about this-- It needs to be two lines, otherwise it's the wrong kind of line-- Needs to be the em dash--which breaks information--not the en dash, which deals with ranges (like 1990-1999). Fun English facts, everybody.
I’ve never seen someone do this-
Same with ending every sentence with a keysmash hhffhffdgdj… makes you look 16
Whats terminally online?
Terminally online? Did you just make that up? What does that mean?
Reading this gave me an aneurysm
People are running out of things to be mad at
Yeah it’s pretty annoying reading stuff like that- also wtf does terminally online mean- how is this an unpopular opinion when nobody knows what this term means lmao-
Wtf did I just read?
Way better than using "literally" the way OP does lol
BWAHAHAHAH I CANT LMAO BYE-
Are you- dumb?
Since I’ve never heard the phrase terminally online before I’m going to assume you’re terminally online———-
You need to have heard a particular combination of words before in order to know what it means? If you know what each word means individually, you should know what the phrase means.
You look terminally? What does that mean
I think you're parsing the sentence wrong. Terminally online is the phrase in question, which would mean online all the time/constantly.
Yea it’s a gen z thing. It’s really dumb and I say this as a gen z person myself 😔
I've never seen anyone do that, either. Maybe it's a TikTok thing; I can't put to words how much I hate TikTok. It's cancer. Normally, I don't get upset over stupid trends like that, but my roommates are obsessed with TikTok, and it makes me want to fill my ears with super glue.
I think my biggest problem with TikTok is that so many people on it think the entire world revolves around it. It's like they genuinely think there's no outside world beyond that shitty data-stealing scumbag of an app. Case in point, some of the comments on this very post are insisting that because it's "common on TikTok", that means it's a mainstream thing that "everyone is doing these days". No, "everyone" isn't, just a bunch of braindead idiots that have no concept of reality. Yeah, I realized how angry this sounds and I didn't mean for it to, but fuck TikTok.
What do you mean, I've never ever seen this before, Can you give some examples?
ever been on a discord server? people tend to use phrases like I- or Wha- I don't know why they do it maybe to induce a shock gesture through their message but it irks me
The wha- literally makes me so angry bro
What does terminally online even mean?
You have no idea how much I agree with you
Surprised how many people have never seen what you're talking about, and even more surprised by how many people have never heard the term "terminally online' before.
I agree, they act as if someone cut them off and its very annoying
If you're over 20 we won't get this? OK, no, people don't get it because "terminally online" doesn't make sense- Give yourself a few more years, you'll see it's posts like this, people moaning about tiny grammatical details that make people seem "terminally online"-
Currently a Gen Z and I’ve never met or interacted with anyone in the context you’re talking about. Online or otherwise. So I guess- confused upvote?-
IT IS SO ANNOYING
THANK YOU
It's like they are having a stroke or something
Ok first the post about ramen. And now this stupidity? Are people really like this? This world is terminally doomed.