itβs kinda cool how our generation has created actual tone in the way we write online. like whether we: write properly with perfect grammar, shrthnd everythin, use capitals to emphasise The Point, use extra letters or characters for emotion!!!!!, and much more - it means we can have casual conversations, effectively make jokes using things like sarcasm thatβs usually hard to understand without context and much more. this βincorrect Englishβ has really opened avenues of online conversation that isnβt accessible with βcorrect Englishβ which is pretty interesting
#this is why attempts by the media to portray online communication by βββmillenialsββ really frustrate me #because there are Rules okay #like see thatβs different to saying β'there are rulesβ (tags via @soaringsparrows)
My class and I literally taught some of the nuances of this to our english teacher, things such as the difference betweenΒ βyesβ andΒ βyes.β orΒ β..β andΒ ββ¦β. It makes perfect sense linguistically that we would create this complexity to ease communication in a medium without body language and tone, but what my teacher was really floored about was that none of this had everΒ βlearnedβ it, weβreΒ βnative speakersβ of a whole new type of english.
