{"id":21910,"date":"2023-09-28T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=21910"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:49:47","slug":"20230928-2191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230928-2191\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in Japan, using a period when texting translates to \u201cI\u2019m pissed\u201d\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the English-speaking world, using periods at the end of your sentences while texting is more than likely to create the impression that you\u2019re either elderly, angry or a grammar snob, which is why omitting it has become more or less the norm. It turns out, a similar phenomenon exists in Japanese texting culture as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent years, younger generations, gen Z in particular, have mostly done away with the period in casual texting as they have come to feel overly final, unfriendly and even kind of hostile at times. It\u2019s to the point where you can even use them deliberately to show that you\u2019re not very pleased, or that you don\u2019t mean what you\u2019re saying (no one\u2019s going to believe you\u2019re genuinely excited if you text them \u201cGreat.\u201d).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surprisingly, it seems that the same tendency can be seen in Japan as well. Compared to English punctuation, the Japanese punctuation of today is actually relatively modern, as periods, commas etc. were officially defined in 1946 (though they had been introduced earlier than that from China and Western cultures).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Japanese period (\u201c\u3002\u201d), though different in appearance (a circle as opposed to a dot), has mostly the same function as the English period \u2013 signaling where a sentence stops. However, as opposed to English, the period in Japanese serves more to separate consecutive sentences from each other than to \u201cfinish a sentence,\u201d so standalone sentences can be seen omitting the period sometimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent article<\/a>, a professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics comments about the phenomenon of people in increasingly omitting periods on LINE (a major messaging app in Japan, synonymous to the act of texting itself). \u201cEnding your sentences with periods when messaging via LINE gives an especially cold impression. This is because a conversation is like a game of catch \u2013 it’s crucial for it to keep going without one side cutting the other off. The period has the effect of strongly cutting off the other side,\u201d the professor explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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