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Comment by abruzzi | Hacker News Reader

I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill".

So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, with proper punctuation?

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> I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill".

The picture shows the opposite: you tried to type “chillax” but it is correcting it to “chill”, but offering you to revert the correction.

*author's

studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something

In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.

Surely it’s always meant that. It’s just a long pause.

I’d think something like “are you serious…” would be pretty universally understood.

It's interpreted as old person, because there's a class of boomer that ends all their sentences with … and then puts them in the middle of half of them too.

and just when you think you've solved the ellipses and fullstop, someone comes along and hits you with the:

..

Aerodynamic semicolon.

And the plain smile emoji is either a normal amount of happiness, or a malicious serial killer dead-eyes rictus.

It's called full-stopping.

Sure.

ok.

Capitalization at the beginning of your sentence would have made for an even more dramatic effect ;)

calm down bro it's just what i heard

“I’m responsible only for what I say, not what you understand.” – John Wayne

Quite likely!

There's nothing wrong with either, though, and I wouldn't recommend judging anyone's mastery of style or grammar based on only a single (and quite idiosyncratic) communication channel.

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