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A full stop - ending a sentence with a period - is a sign of 'aggression' to the hyper-sensitive generation raised with cell phone in hand, according to linguists who presumably prefer we communicate in emojis.
Ending a message with a period has come to "signify an abrupt or angry tone of voice" to Generation Z, some linguists claim, arguing that in the era of ubiquitous texting and instant messaging, full stops are no longer necessary to merely indicate the end of a sentence.
An idea's conclusion is implied by the end of the message, they insist (
because nobody communicates in more than one sentence at a time anymore, apparently - you just hit 'send' and start a new message). When full stops are used, they're supposedly interpreted as "ominous" or emotionally charged by the hyper-sensitive young people reading the message.
The full stop's use is being "revised in a really fundamental way," Professor David Crystal, billed by the UK
Telegraph as "one of the world's leading language experts,"
alleges. It's no longer about ending a sentence but about an "emotion marker," he says. This is even "backed up by science" - a 2015 Binghamton University study found college students perceive text messages ending in a full stop as being "less sincere" than those without one.
Comment: It is impossible to build anything of lasting substance based on lies and delusions, but those "fighting against the colonially oppressive blah blah blah" in the hard sciences are determined to try. Unfortunately, they're trying to drag the rest of society into their delusions and if they win it will put the world back several hundred years in terms of scientific and technological development.