It’s still a thing. The new rule is: never end a paragraph with a full stop, otherwise it’s perceived as overly formal or cold. You can still use them within paragraphs, it’s only the very end of a paragraph you omit it
At least, that’s the rule my autistic ass has reverse-engineered. Also, lol cannot have any punctuation immediately after it like “lol.”, otherwise it comes across as flat and half-hearted. You need to restructure your whole sentence if that happens
Interesting, I haven’t come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you’re sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn’t add anything functionally.
It’s still a thing. The new rule is: never end a paragraph with a full stop, otherwise it’s perceived as overly formal or cold. You can still use them within paragraphs, it’s only the very end of a paragraph you omit it
At least, that’s the rule my autistic ass has reverse-engineered. Also, lol cannot have any punctuation immediately after it like “lol.”, otherwise it comes across as flat and half-hearted. You need to restructure your whole sentence if that happens
Interesting, I haven’t come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you’re sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn’t add anything functionally.