tone is cultural too. swedes are usually curt, and that can be seen as rude. most people who didn’t grow up on the internet tend to use swedish tone in english writing and it comes off as very blunt.
and, as i noted elsewhere in the thread, hen is not a direct translation of they, and is a very new word. we’ve just started using it to refer directly to people but that’s not its original intent.
most people who didn’t grow up on the internet tend to use swedish tone in english writing and it comes off as very blunt.
That also makes a lot of sense. While I remember dialup, I also was very social on the early web, BBSs, and MUDs, which definitely led to adopting more personable means of communicating via text. I’d say that it’s not just a Swedish phenomenon but also occurs a lot with native English speakers who never adapted (ex. typing in all-caps).
tone is cultural too. swedes are usually curt, and that can be seen as rude. most people who didn’t grow up on the internet tend to use swedish tone in english writing and it comes off as very blunt.
and, as i noted elsewhere in the thread, hen is not a direct translation of they, and is a very new word. we’ve just started using it to refer directly to people but that’s not its original intent.
That also makes a lot of sense. While I remember dialup, I also was very social on the early web, BBSs, and MUDs, which definitely led to adopting more personable means of communicating via text. I’d say that it’s not just a Swedish phenomenon but also occurs a lot with native English speakers who never adapted (ex. typing in all-caps).