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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And spelling.

And knowing that 'e-mail' never gets pluralized with an S, and a host of other simple things that were lost when they seemingly stopped having Grade 3.

We can drive a stick, make a campfire, tie a bowline or a splint and make an igloo and a lean-to. We fought with sticks, we wore no helmets and if we didn't learn at school they held us back. Fear us.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Did you also walk to school uphill both ways, barefoot on snow and broken glass?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

no, they were our parents, and they never let us youngins (now around 50) forget it

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

So you would say that you received 3 e-mail today?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

damn bro you accidentally posted your facebook post as a lemmy comment.

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