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What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 10:04:21 AM

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There is never any wondering if I am posting from a mobile device since every word or almost every word has a period after it. I will look at it and and say screw it and either cancel the post to wait until I can get to my laptop or post it anyways and stick my tongue out at the grammar nazis out there. It is way to hard to go back and edit out all those periods on a mobile. I don't even know how they get there, I am not hitting the period key. I thought it was just me until I saw another post on facebook full of periods. :)

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 10:44:20 AM

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Usually happens if you hit the space bar twice. Typically you can disable this feature in settings. I personally love it but run into the problem of expecting my PC to do the same and end of having to go back and adding the periods.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 10:51:02 AM

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hmm I don't know if I can disable mine or not. I never saw anything that suggested it. I will have to look. That would be a problem of expecting your PC to do the same thing. :)

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 11:10:12 AM

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...I personally love it...

That's the one major thing I can't stand - walls of text interspersed with a few periods where a new sentence should be.
It makes it bloody hard to read!

What is wrong with today's generation that they can't be assed to type things properly any more???
If I see that on a profile I skip it immediately - and some forum posts too.
If they can't be assed to type properly, I can't be assed to read it. Simples!

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 11:31:20 AM

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I meant I love the auto feature, not when things are typed incorrectly.
When typing on a cellphone, punctuation is located on a separate keyboard and saves time (at least is the case with my phone).

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 1:01:58 PM

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It drives me crazy too, and most times I hit end in disgust. I cant fix it easily like I can on my laptop.

On a side note I have no idea how I posted this first in general BDSM. I could have sworn I was here in off topic. Weird! Oh well it goes with the how the hell did I unload half a load of laundry into the dryer and forget about it, or put the grounds into the coffee basket and forget to fill it with water, so we wake up to a hot empty coffee pot instead of a yummy fresh pot of coffee. OY OY OY

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 1:04:29 PM

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You've got the cart before the horse. If you had set the coffee pot properly, then you would have had no problem with everything else. Lack of that first cup caused all the other problems.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 1:12:31 PM

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Oh gawd. No, I can't think clearly (less than usual I should say) without that first cup. I've had some real ditzy, and klutzy, moments.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 1:53:20 PM

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Makes it bloody hard to read

Oh, you mean full stops .... slinks off muttering about the language gulf.....

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 4:14:25 PM

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Oh I know. My husband gets up first and he gets a good laugh at the hot empty coffee pot. I go oh no!!! Once again I got distracted halfway through and forgot about it. ARG! He blames it on our 4 month old deciding 4 am is a good time to want to get up and play after getting up every 3 hours to eat. hehehe It makes a mamma kinda ditzy during the day!

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 4:40:29 PM

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There is never any wondering if I am posting from a mobile device since every word or almost every word has a period after it. I will look at it and and say screw it and either cancel the post to wait until I can get to my laptop or post it anyways and stick my tongue out at the grammar nazis out there. It is way to hard to go back and edit out all those periods on a mobile. I don't even know how they get there, I am not hitting the period key. I thought it was just me until I saw another post on facebook full of periods. :)

Grammar Nazis are your friends.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 7/29/2013 4:52:56 PM

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LOL!! Most times I laugh at other fights over grammar. While I am far from perfect I stay under nazi radar.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 8/3/2013 6:33:06 PM

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There is never any wondering if I am posting from a mobile device since every word or almost every word has a period after it. I will look at it and and say screw it and either cancel the post to wait until I can get to my laptop or post it anyways and stick my tongue out at the grammar nazis out there. It is way to hard to go back and edit out all those periods on a mobile. I don't even know how they get there, I am not hitting the period key. I thought it was just me until I saw another post on facebook full of periods. :)

See if it has this issue with periods at specific times of the month.

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RE: What is with mobile devices love of periods!! - 8/3/2013 6:35:49 PM

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