fun fact: I *intentionally* avoid capitalizing sentences in most interactions because I noticed that when I did it would give more "serious and intimidating" vibes.
I even disabled the setting in my phone that does it automatically.
@andy_amd@elizabeth I stopped ending the final sentence in a message with a period. It's implied
@andy_amd I sometimes do that too, but I tend to use them when the sentence/paragraph includes other punctuation marks, specially other periods. it feels weird otherwise.
@gabri@elizabeth Interesting. I'm more of the opposite: I prefer more scholarly like language and sometimes I even add "proper citations" (instead of just throwing links and #footnotes) to toots and WhatsApp messages.
It does lead to confusion and conflict at times but I feel more connected to people who, like me, are a bit of a "natural scholar" and enjoy language precision, correctness and formatting quirks.
I, however, wonder how much of this is related to learning #LaTeX at around 13yo. lol
@gabri I see... I mean, it seems like a proper way to organize language. I guess my case has to do with, as I said, people perceiving me as a bit intimidating at first (specially at work), so I try to soften that out depending on the context, if I want to encourage social interactions.
@gabri@elizabeth It makes for why people feel like that: it reminds them of school.