• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      This reminds me of something Gail Collins wrote.

      She said she went to the store to buy salad dressing, and it ended up taking her twenty minutes to choose one bottle from an aisle full of different brands.

      When she got home she realized that she could have made salad dressing at home in five minutes.

      When shortcuts take longer than the thing they are supposed to replace, they become useless.

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

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

            What did you think the “/j” meant?

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              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.