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Bettie

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27. Just checked my texts with my kids

Reply to live love laugh (Original post)

Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:00 AM

Oct 2025

they all use punctuation (correctly), full sentences, and appropriate capitalization.

They are 24, 23, and 17....all boys.

Just one data point and they are all avid readers and grew up with me as a mother, so that may have something to do with it.

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A talk show guest just said her kids make fun of people on social media who use punctuation. [View all] live love laugh Oct 2025 OP

That's ok. They will continue to think that right up until the time they need a job... period. lapfog_1 Oct 2025 #1

Wayyyyyy back in the before times, job applications could get tossed niyad Oct 2025 #3

Did it make you want to stick your head Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #22

You got it! niyad Oct 2025 #24

Wow I'd expect better from professionals like piblishers! electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #42

Just to amuse (or annoy) myself, I once kept track of every error in a novel niyad Oct 2025 #47

Do NOT Mark Up the Library Books! 😄 electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #49

Not true. Not punctuating text messages is a real thing LearnedHand Oct 2025 #18

A talk show guest just admitted her kids don't understand ornotna Oct 2025 #2

The next with-it fad will be to use punctuation. Hugin Oct 2025 #4

Funny You Say That ProfessorGAC Oct 2025 #40

Interesting! electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #43

I have come to accept its part of the love language... Hugin Oct 2025 #46

Please tell us who this idiot is. niyad Oct 2025 #5

lol wtf LastDemocratInSC Oct 2025 #6

That's really sad PatSeg Oct 2025 #7

Not just young people! Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #8

Those kinds of posts are often voice to text fwiw WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2025 #11

Yes I understand that may be so Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #31

The same people also don't think they need to FoxNewsSucks Oct 2025 #35

Not to mention failing to know Jerry2144 Oct 2025 #30

Ah, yes, the English composition trio of doom . . . hatrack Oct 2025 #38

I have to say, "wow" (and not in a good way)! electric_blue68 Oct 2025 #45

You left out our, are, and hour. My favourite example, of course, is the niyad Oct 2025 #48

There's a word for the kids that don't use punctuation in the future Renew Deal Oct 2025 #9

It's been considered a mark of age for years. The constantly changing grammar of text messaging is fascinating tbh. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2025 #10

Thanks for this LearnedHand Oct 2025 #19

Sure, but making fun of people is rude and Trump-like. yardwork Oct 2025 #25

I like to sprinkle all my posts with punctuations, almost randomly. hunter Oct 2025 #12

Glad to be "old". Punctuation serves a function: clarity, rhythm. It's oil in the gears, not sand. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #13

I have also read that using punctuation in a text is considered "aggressive." 3catwoman3 Oct 2025 #14

Typical of the state of the country now. yardwork Oct 2025 #26

In a recent TV detective show, using two spaces after the full stop as opposed to one question everything Oct 2025 #15

That would be Elsbeth! MagickMuffin Oct 2025 #17

Correct. And I am old since I do use two spaces between sentences question everything Oct 2025 #44

Well then, lock me up and throw away the key. Xavier Breath Oct 2025 #41

I have also read that using punctuation in a text is considered... 3catwoman3 Oct 2025 #16

"Let's eat grandma..." EarthFirst Oct 2025 #20

And don't forget the all-important Oxford comma Jerry2144 Oct 2025 #32

Well, excuse me for using commas, periods, exclamation marks, and the sort. sakabatou Oct 2025 #21

You are also excused for not abusing apostrophes. GoCubsGo Oct 2025 #36

Well, they don't use actual words, either Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #23

Just checked my texts with my kids Bettie Oct 2025 #27

From the same generation that can't read or write in cursive? maptap22 Oct 2025 #28

My youngest Bettie Oct 2025 #29

And just how many jobs out there actually require PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2025 #33

I use semicolons as needed in my SM posts irisblue Oct 2025 #34

Who cares? flvegan Oct 2025 #37

"A talk show guest..."??!! MorbidButterflyTat Oct 2025 #39