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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke? (jorts.horse)

submitted 5 months ago by fathermcgruder@jorts.horse to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What? Who are you communicating with, and what shortcuts are you talking about? I text with my kids and they use more shortcuts and abbreviations than I do.

In work emails, I try to think of the recipient when writing them. Some people are chattier and prefer a nice introduction and thorough explanation, but my boss likes to just see messages like:

Posted on 13-May, thanks.

So if that's what you are talking about maybe you just have a more social communication style.

Though I will say my husband uses the ominous ellipses too often, like...

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All the younger people I text with use more acronyms and abbreviations than I do. I even spell out okay.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 5 months ago

I even spell out okay.

Which is funny, because it originated as an initialism for "Oll Korrekt".