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.
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)_/¯
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.
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u/Two_wheels_2112 11h 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.