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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

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?

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

It's called full-stopping.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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This is very funny, but it's also disquieting, because people who text like this absolutely do exist; I know because I'm on the list for the block I live on. Modulo a lack of spelling and grammar errors, this is what normal people sound like. The idea that very normal people behavior is this odd or telling is, itself, pretty telling!

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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I don’t think real world messages would look good in marketing copy, too many emojis, “uhhh”, “no cap” and bathroom pics. I don’t know what the author is expecting/analyzing here.

I’m disturbed that you have a lot of bathroom pics in your texts

Random bathroom selfie seems pretty standard.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

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?

> 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.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

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?

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.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

ok.

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