fkn old people, man

[EssExTee]

For a generation so hung up on tradition and 'proper'-ness, they sure all type like it's their first time ever writing. This isn't an isolated thing, it's literally every single person over 60 that I interact with. Look at this. This is part of a business dealing, and the guy's typing like it's 1940 and he's sending a telegram STOP. My real estate agent is no better, if I'd never met him I'd swear he was 12 from the way he writes his emails.

[e90m3]

@EssExTee What are you talking about... Old people are always good with grammar...

[Taylor Martin]

@EssExTee Neighbor is doing the repair could go one of two ways... I'm hoping it goes horribly wrong so the saga continues and they come back to you (even if you don't take them)

[flatisflat]

@EssExTee That "thanx" is him just trying to be hip with the kids' vernacular.

[farscythe]

@EssExTee but....i always write like this...seriously...check any post ive ever made
well...there might be a few written correctly...but i was probably sick those days

[krustywantout]

@EssExTee Wow, that is just terrible. If this was a younger person, everyone would say (insert generation) sucks. Of course people of Boomer or Gen X (like myself) get a pass. Stupidity and laziness isn't generational folks and we should ridicule people without any bias (joking but not joking).

[KngT]

@EssExTee No cap seems a lil Sus FR fam

[fhrblig]

@EssExTee I used to work with an older guy who was a total nut job, and his writing was always like this:

I. PUT. A. PERIOD. AFTER. ALMOST. EVERY WORD. BUT. NOT. ALL. OF. THEM SO. I CAN. KEEP. YOU. GUESSING. IF. THERE'S. A. PATTERN. OR IF. I'M. INSANE.

[GrindIntoSecond]

@EssExTee old people view email and text and anything substituted with internet as much less formal. I do. And it’s not true but my efforts to really grammar up and punctuate rely on having an editor to pass things to. Or, an editor with whom I shall pass along my work. As someone once said, I write, and the editor puts in the commas and shit. I wish I had a free editor. Then I could really not care. Grammarly still requires I look at things and correct them.

Anyway, internet things makes attention to detail seem unimportant. But the new crowd of them youths might take it seriously; however, they don’t know cursive,,,

[aremmes]

@EssExTee My boss at a previous job had ground his teeth working with RPG and COBOL on minicomputers (IBM System/38 and HP 3000, IIRC), and had developed the habit of writing his emails as if they had a fixed column width.

So he would start a line like this, ya know,
and then insert a newline mid sentence for no
other reason than the line was getting a bit
too close to the right margin. I wonder now
if he was expecting to hear a bell ring when
he got to column 72 or something.

[aremmes]

@KngT Son, I told you to stay off Oppo. Go back to Discord or whatever you kids do these days.

[ranwhenparked]

@EssExTee DID YOU KNOW LOUISE WAS IN HOSPITAL RECEIVED MESSAGE FROM KIM SHE HAD A BLOOD CLOT IN HER LUNG . KIM SAID SHE WOULD PROBALY BE ON OXYGEN THE REST OF HER LIFE

[Demon Xanth]

@EssExTee The only people I know who use text speak are my parents, whom are both over 70.

[ash78]

This is annoying, but it's all the minor stuff that gets me. For example, my dad uses an ellipses on the end of everything.

"Thanks..."

Is there more coming? Are you being sarcastic?

"I understand..."

...but you're disappointed?

I won't pretend to get emoji -- I disabled mine because there were just too many of them and I reverted back to a couple basic emoticons instead. But that's intentionally ironic. And also because I'm too lazy to search 1,000 emoji just to accidentally come out to my parents because I picked the yellow guy holding hands with the black guy instead of a heart.

[bison78]

@aremmes

Is it possible that whatever email client he uses formats the text like that?

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@EssExTee

If you know what I mean.

[bison78]

@EssExTee

As a certified old man myself, I converse with other old people. We all strive for correct grammar in our writings. I blame my typos on my keyboard, which sometimes misses "o" and a couple of other characters. However, we have also been using email for a long time.

I suspect that it may be people who more recently picked up texting and are trying to emulate what they think the kids do.

[aremmes]

@bison78 No, we were using Outlook and Exchange at that time. The company had already migrated to Exchange on Windows NT when I started there, and I upgraded it to Windows Server 2003 and the then-current version Exchange with Active Directory.

[aremmes]

@ranwhenparked BOB WEHADABABYITSABOY

[ForSweden]

You hit 'em with the, "OK Boomer."
They hit ya with the, "OK Zoomer."
Repeat

[bison78]

@aremmes

No, we were using Outlook and Exchange at that time.

Which both support regular SMTP and IMAP or POP. He could have been using Alpine with a configured external editor that limited the column width.

I have no idea why he would choose to do this, but it's technically possible. You can even use Alpine with OAuth logins:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/UsingAlpinewitho365

[ranwhenparked]

@aremmes

Who are you, are you a bot? Please get off my webpage

[aremmes]

@bison78 I got to watch him type emails occasionally. He definitely was using Outlook. He was also a hunt-and-peck typist, and only used his index fingers to press the keys. I was responsible for desktop support as well as servers and network, and had only ~60 employees on the site, so I had a pretty good idea of what was installed on each machine.

[EssExTee]

@aremmes said in fkn old people, man:

hunt-and-peck typist

I absolutely cannot touch type but I still manage 40wpm with good accuracy

[KngT]

@aremmes You can't tell me what to do! You ain't my real dad!