年轻人发信息不爱用句号Full Stop Is “Intimidating” to Young People

在微信里交流的时候，你会在一句话结束时用句号吗？一些语言学家表示，用句号来结束一句话，会让拿着手机长大的Z世代人感到恐慌，因为这个标点符号对于他们而言，不再意味着句子的结束，而是表示“说话时语气生硬或愤怒”。

Full stops intimidate young people when used in social media communication as they are interpreted as a sign of anger， according to linguistic experts.

语言专家表示，在社交媒体交流中使用句号会让年轻人感到恐慌，因为他们认为这表示愤怒。

Teenagers and those in their early twenties， classified as Generation Z， have grown up with smartphones which they use to send short messages without full stops.

青少年和那些20歲出头的人被称为Z世代，他们在智能手机的陪伴下长大，用智能手机发送短信，但不使用句号。

Linguistic experts are now investigating why teens interpret a correctly-punctuated text as a signal of irritation.

语言专家正在研究，为什么青少年会把正确地使用了标点的短信理解为愤怒的信号。

The debate was reignited after writer Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted： “Older people—do you realize that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email or a text chat？ Genuinely curious.”

作家里安农·科斯莱特在发布的推文中写道：“年龄较大的人们，你们是否意识到，在邮件或短信聊天中使用句号对年轻人来说意味着生硬和不友善？纯粹好奇。”这引发了有关年轻人对句号态度的再次讨论。

That prompted crime novelist Sophie Hannah to reply： “Just asked 16-year-old son—apparently this is true. If he got a message with full stops at the end of sentences hed think the sender was ‘weird， mean or too blunt.”

犯罪小说家索菲·汉娜回复道：“我问过16岁的儿子，这显然是真的。如果他收到的短信末尾有句号，他会认为发件人‘古怪、刻薄或太生硬。”

According to experts， youngsters used to communicating electronically break up their thoughts by sending each one as a separate message， rather than using a full stop， which they use only to signal they are annoyed or irritated.

专家认为，习惯用电子设备交流的年轻人会将他们的想法分开发送，而不是使用句号，因为句号只在表示他们感到烦恼或愤怒时使用。

Some have said the full stop is redundant when used in texting because the message is ended just by sending it.

有些人说，发短信时用句号是多余的，因为发出短信的行为就表示那句话结束了。

According to The Daily Telegraph， Linguist Dr Lauren Fonteyn of Leiden University in Holland， said， “If you send a text message without a full stop， its already obvious that youve concluded the message. So if you add that additional marker for completion， they will read something into it and it tends to be a falling intonation or negative tone.”

据英国《每日电讯报》报道，荷兰莱顿大学的语言学家劳伦·方廷博士说：“发短信时不加句号，很明显说明你已经说完了。所以如果已经结束了，你还额外加上一个表示完成的符号，人们就会解读出一些往往是消极或负面的情绪。……