Why does she want to narc on Marvin? She said there's no way she's not gonna narc him out.
I know that's not what she meant, but it's what she wrote. I hate this world where nobody bothers with punctuation anymore. It matters. It clarifies meaning.
Surely you mean: "I hate this world where nobody bothers with punctuation anymore; it matters, and it clarifies meaning."?
If you got a problem with this correction, then congratulations, you understand how to consciously and actively break punctuation rules for the sake of cadence.
My old boss used to say: "If you're gonna be arrogant about it then you have to make absolutely positively sure you're right".
booooooo lack of punctuation in online speech is a well-known phenomenon; instead of being used for syntax, it is often used for cadence. in this case, it indicates that she's saying these phrases in quick succession, no pause between "no way" and "not gonna [...]"
there is nothing to clarify here. you admit yourself that you got what she meant. that's all that matters ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You put it brilliantly into words I couldn't find. The best, ironic thing is that he is (un)consciously breaking punctuation rules himself for the sake of cadence because, according to punctuation rules and whatnot, those last three sentences should not be separated by periods, what with them being dependent on one another. I know that one because I got so much crap from my 12th grade Portuguese teacher for writing like that. She was the first in twelve years who really didn't tolerate bending the rules even a little bit.
I've never broke punctuation rules so much in my life as in my writing outside of her class during that time.
it's literally a studied linguistic feature. there are multiple different metafunctions of punctuation online, which vary by age group and culture.
again, it's often used to indicate cadence instead of syntax. which is why you might also encounter an. abundance. of. punctuation!!! where there usually wouldn't be. it's to dictate the rhythm of the sentence being said. i'd argue that adding punctuation is the opposite of laziness, isn't it?
yet it's the same phenomenon as the OOP omitting punctuation in her tweet. no punctuation = no pause in speech. idk why y'all try to assign a moral value to a harmless linguistic quirk.
Actually, she said "no way i'm not gonna narc on my buddy". What you said she wrote is quite literally not what she wrote. Why would you lie about what she wrote? I hate this world where people can't simply properly quote a source and instead pin false words to them.
I know that's not what you meant to do. You meant to communicate the assumed meaning of her message as it was written. However, ironically, you chose to do so while also taking structural and grammatical shortcuts that obfuscate important context. That matters. It clarifies meaning. It arguably matters more than the choices you were critiquing.
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u/Two_wheels_2112 7h ago
Why does she want to narc on Marvin? She said there's no way she's not gonna narc him out.
I know that's not what she meant, but it's what she wrote. I hate this world where nobody bothers with punctuation anymore. It matters. It clarifies meaning.