• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    I don’t really see how this is comparable.

    1. The thing about tone-tags isn’t being a shortcut, but rather mitigating the lack of tone transmitted via text.
    2. It’s also for accessibility, to help neurodivergent people not get confused. Mixing up /s and /j is decremental to that cause.
    3. The “problem” goes away if enough people adopt it. /s has seen wider adoption, why not the rest of the tone-tags set?
    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      It takes less time to write something like “reference” or “joking” than it does to try and memorize the list.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        You don’t need to memorize the full list. Most of the tags make mnemonic sense.

        What did you think the “/j” meant?

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          I’ve seen “/s” and never saw “/j” before.

          Personally, I thought it was a typo of /s.

          sarcastic is a long word, whereas ‘joke’ is only four letters; that’s two more than ‘/j.’

          Like I said, your shortcut doesn’t really save time.