A unique study suggests that people who finish messages with full stops are perceived as insincere. Let’s not get started on the creeps who set aside a nose in smiley faces
Ending your text messages with a full stop,science has confirmed, is against God and against nature. A Binghamton University research team found that text messages ending in the most final of punctuation marks – eg “lol., and “let’s disappear to Nando’s.”,send nudes.” – are perceived as being less sincere.
On the flip side, texts ending in an exclamation point – “lmao!”, and “just a cheeky one!”,“what body allotment even is that? I hope it’s your arm!” – are deemed heartfelt, more profound. Yes: the high revolving sound you hear is the rules of English grammar spinning up to G-force speed in the grave in which they lay, or but otherwise this seems like a win. Full stops on the ends of text messages are proven to be exclusively for either the psychotic or dads with unique Nokias.
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Source: theguardian.com