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#well. if they're a native speaker who reads it back to themself will be v! effective
pride-of-storm · 2 years
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drunk enough to pause to enjoy the sound of sidewalk sprinklers oh boy
#OH a v round moon#tomorrow is The full moon which means as far as werewolves are concerned tonight is a full moon#if i am making more than one personal post on one or more social media it is v likely i am intoxicated#(so if i'm spouting bullshit on both tumblr And any one or more of my three twitters i'm probably drunk)#storm's posts#personal#alcohol cw#made it to cider festival! it was great!#one of the stands i specifically wanted to hit was one of the Two i didn't make it to today!#so i'd been planning to go tomorrow Anyway but now i definitely am#i! intend! to try! the ice wine!#ice cider?#anyway to a degree you can tell what kinda person someone is based on how they punctuate a phrase with exclamation points#if it's every single word? indicates nothing. neutral but probably not conveying as much emotion as they hoped#....okay the only alternative i have is punctuated based on phrasing which.#well. if they're a native speaker who reads it back to themself will be v! effective#but if they're thoughtless it may be separating phrases that are not grammatically incorrect But do not imply the intended emphasis#nonnative speakers may end up with wildly different instincts on phrase within a sentence but who knows!!#depends on the speaker! their first language and their experience!#so-- well if there is no emphasis on phrasing where the exclamation points make sense#the writer is either not a native english speaker Or a native english speaker who isn't really thinking about how it will be interpreted#which. well. really tells you nothing useful.#like either they're capable of cogent ideas But communicating them in english is harder#or communicating in written english is easy! it is identical to speaking english! i do not critically evaluate anything!#....#...#....i may be bitter but#or bitchy idk i'll accept either#okay Why? did that twitter alt get a note at This Specific Moment#this is the first one in like a month i know it's statistically still coincidence but boy is it hard to convince my brain!!
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