• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    Written language is evolving, the period being the pointed end to a sentence may lead to a new punctuation mark as the period only becomes “ok” as a separator.

    Or maybe we go full comma, that would be weird, I think, yeah,

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      11 hours ago

      This is possible but doesn’t take into account that the likely reason the period went out of fashion as a sentence terminator is that the need for having a terminator in the first place has diminished.

        • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 hours ago

          Sure, in between sentences. But there’s no need for a period at the end of a message. Just look at the comments. There’s many without a period at the end, and some with. I thought it was kinda silly at first to prescribe meaning to it as well, however it works well as an indicator of tone, and punctuation at the end of a message doesn’t really have any other purpose now that messages are contained within their own bubble