| I am about as young as a full time enterprise employee can be, and I find this thread fascinating. Because while I totally agree with the individual that you are replying too, I TOTALLY see how it could seem ridiculous to someone with the periods-end-sentences perspective. Let me try and come up with an ideal example. Consider this IM to a friendly teammate concerning an important (but not critical) meeting: > did we get everything sorted out for the meeting this afternoon? we cant screw it up again > Did we get everything sorted out for the meeting this afternoon? We can't screw it up again > Did we get everything sorted out for the meeting this afternoon? We can't screw it up again. In my world, the first two communicate pretty much the same thing. In the first example, you could probably even replace the question mark with a comma. I would likely send the second message, as I prefer descriptive, detail-adding punctuation. I would be less likely to send the third message to a young coworker because it seems standoffish. Having said all that, any of the three messages would suffice. Someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but we - or at least the younger generation - have all become quite good at code switching. Crazy times |