That's in your mind, unless you think your manager is one of the people who believes in Aggressive Periods. I've read the claim that periods are fraught with meaning many times, and yet I've never actually seen one used that way.
Unless, of course, you meant something more like "OK。。。".
Examples:
“It’s fine!” (It is indeed fine.)
“It’s fine.” (It’s not at all fine.)
“K, thanks” (Got it, thanks)
“K. Thanks.” (Cool. Thanks for nothing.)
“Bye” (See you later)
“Bye.” (Fuck off)
And it's a mistake to assume that your manager must follow the same weird typographical conventions that you do. Odds are he's never heard of them.
I’m honestly shocked there are HN users who are unaware of the tone implications.
Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style (2016): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/world/europe/period-full-...
The Period Is Pissed (2013): https://newrepublic.com/article/115726/period-our-simplest-p...
Stop. Using. Periods. Period. (2016): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/13/stop-...
The Secret Emotional Lives of 5 Punctuation Marks (2014): https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59060/secret-emotional-l...
Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Angry or Insincere? (2016): https://theconversation.com/why-does-using-a-period-in-a-tex...
Yes. A Study Shows that Ending Your Texts with a Period Makes You Sound Like an Asshole (2016): https://www.mic.com/articles/130042/ending-your-texts-with-a...
The tone implications are not an objective fact. They are a quirk of your social group.
As I wrote above, I'm "aware" of the implication in that I have seen it described many times. But it's not an implication that actually exists in any context I am part of.
By contrast, the belief that the ordinary smile emoji U+14642 constitutes an insult rather than a smile is a very real, and therefore more painful and annoying, part of my personal context.
You can accept it or you can ignore it. Either way, the shift has already happened whether you’ve realized it or not.
My Grandma TYPES LIKE THIS ON FACEBOOK because she insists it shows her excitement. Silly, Grandma...
You viewing periods as threatening is not a shift that has happened to me. It's a shift that's happened to you. If I were to "accept it" as you suggest, the only thing that would happen would be that I started misinterpreting my friends and taking offense where none was offered. No part of that is a good idea.
You seem to have a lot of difficulty with the idea that different groups might not communicate in the same way. Do you really believe that everyone using 88 as a fun way to say "bye" is really signaling Nazi sympathies?
Yeah, and since she's your grandma you read her allcaps as excitement, don't you? mom glare
As a bridger, I think you all need to see the gradients that exist in language, and learn how to read, maybe write dialect
For those who wonder and had to search, it's U+1F642.
Seems to indicate it can be used in either sense... I think the sarcastic use is not universal.
Edit: just found out HN doesn't let me use emojis, probably a wise move.
It's news to me that full stops are considered rude, but then I don't have a mobile phone. I chat a lot on facebook though, and on MSN before that (with people in many countries, half of them in spanish). Always in...sentences, with full stops. Maybe text chat is a third thing, different to both texting on a phone and email? I don't know. I'd never have suspected a full stop could be rude until reading this thread though!
What country are you from? Canadian here.
I hang out with a lot of people younger than me, who grew up outside the usual tech circles. They definitely text this way and it’s mostly how I text. People on Hacker News are not the type of people I see talking like this.