Vaniver comments on Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 15 January 2016 08:10:20PM 0 points [-]

As an analogy, imagine a person coming from a foreign culture that also speaks English, but in their culture, ending a sentence with a dot is a sign of disrespect towards the recipient.

Note that in most IM conversations and texts, ending a message with a period makes one seem angry or insincere (see here).

Comment author: Romashka 16 January 2016 12:39:16PM 1 point [-]

That should depend on the rules of the language. My supervisor sometimes texted me with You will come (in Ukrainian) when we had not scheduled a meeting, I would rush in to see what got him, and find out he forgot the question mark (again).