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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. These are sensitive times,

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Speaker 1: and it seems that at the moment everyone's a bit

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Speaker 1: highly strung. It's a bit like stroking a cat backwards.

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Speaker 1: Any second of the day. People are getting triggered by things.

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Speaker 1: But you know something that has been around for over

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Speaker 1: two thousand years, and it's triggering a new generation. The

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Speaker 1: full stop is seen as aggressive when you send a text.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm like with texts. My friends get

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Speaker 1: very anxious because I like texts that are like letters.

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Speaker 1: Dear sir, I wish to brew test.

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Speaker 2: We set off from new Planet fifteen fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I like capitals, apostrophes, commas, semi colon's full stops.

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Speaker 2: You do apparently to what about a dangling.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind a dangling participle. That's it's it's seen

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Speaker 1: as offensive, aggressive old. This all started on social media

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Speaker 1: last week when a writer said, older people, do you

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Speaker 1: realize it ending a sentence with a full stop comes

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Speaker 1: across as abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an

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Speaker 1: email or a chat. I'm genuinely curious and other people.

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Speaker 1: Another crime novelist said that her sixteen year old son

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Speaker 1: said it's true if he gets a message with full

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Speaker 1: stops at the end, he thinks the sender was quote weird,

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Speaker 1: mean or too blunt? Really, so what younger people? How

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Speaker 1: old do I sound? Even saying younger people? I hate

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Speaker 1: it when this happens. What they do is they electronically

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Speaker 1: break up their thoughts by sending each one in a

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Speaker 1: separate message.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See, if I look at my phone and see there

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Speaker 1: are five messages, I panic. Whereas according to this, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: You send sentence sentence sentence. Each thought isn't broken up

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Speaker 1: by a full stop, which is what that full stops

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Speaker 1: there for.

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Speaker 2: I do that by accident, and I will send a

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Speaker 2: text and I'll hang on add to it.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right. And if I send a text that

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a full stop, it means that I press

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Speaker 1: send by mistake. It wasn't ready to go people. Yes,

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Speaker 1: being very triggered by full stops.

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Speaker 2: I have to get either of buttros on board just

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Speaker 2: to check my text before I send them to you,

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Speaker 2: just to make sure that everything's above board quite right.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, you know, I know we're in difficult times. But

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Speaker 1: if it full stops upsetting, you come go to a

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Speaker 1: burnsward and get some perspective

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Speaker 2: Joins the and Amanda in the morning on a one

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Speaker 2: point seven