Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they're typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I'd feel shitty making fun of either.

It would be a better internet if that were everyone's first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.

While this isn't supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they've claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I'm kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?

[–] girl@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The space is the least of it. It’s more the combination of using no periods, hitting enter after every thought, then using somewhere between 3 and 6 exclamation marks. Any one of these alone wouldn’t make me raise an eyebrow, but the combination makes it ridiculous.