Asklemmy

1454 readers

73 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

What are some of your ticks? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have a habit of beginning nearly any other thing with 'So'.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Wanting to end all text communications with ellipses ...

[–] Crotaro 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh hey, can you try to explain why you want to do that? I'm always confused by it because unless you mean to end on a dramatic pause, these are just regular sentences and those usually end on a period (or nothing/smiley, if you're an internet person

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's just a desire to indicate some uncertainty about something (like - I'm not an expert, my opinion on whatever could change with time or new information). A full stop seems arrogant somehow.

I realise it's not a good impulse and mostly resist. Mostly ...

(that last one's nothing to do with the above reasoning, it's just a line from Aliens that's stuck in my head).

[–] Crotaro 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the input, I know my reply is plenty late x.x

I totally get the "a full stop seems arrogant, which is why, unless I write formal mails for work or such, just skip the full stop in short one-sentence-answers or if a linebreak makes for better reading because my two or three sentences pertain to different topics.

load more comments (5 replies)