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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the downvotes you receive are for your absurd use of punctuation lmao
XD savage!
Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they're typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I'd feel shitty making fun of either.
It would be a better internet if that were everyone's first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.
While this isn't supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they've claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I'm kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?
The space is the least of it. It’s more the combination of using no periods, hitting enter after every thought, then using somewhere between 3 and 6 exclamation marks. Any one of these alone wouldn’t make me raise an eyebrow, but the combination makes it ridiculous.