• bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    The boomer triple period is even worse.

    Thank you for the invite, we’d be happy to come over for dinner next Monday!

    Great…

    My dad does that a lot, and it’s so weird to me

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      6 hours ago

      If he does it when he is excited you might let him know about exclamation marks.

      Maybe he is trying to be sarcastic.

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        5 hours ago

        Nope, just his normal way of talking.

        Read an article a while back which explained why they probably do it, and while I don’t think it’s the one I read back than this one does a pretty good job.

        TLDR: for older generations it’s a way of separating thoughts most likely leftover from postcards, whereas for the younger ones it looks like something is being (ominously) left out.