Woke Language

My sons and I all use it to react to a text that doesn't need a written reply. It does 'stop' those repeated back and forth 'thanks' 'no problem' type of texts. Not posted as a text but using the reaction mode and appears beside their text as a"I've seen this" notification. When it's really good news it can be a heart, if funny a HaHa etc

Valdali you posted while I was typing, you've expressed it better than me!

Presumably putting OK at the end of your post would also be seen as a termination of the conversation by those who see 👍 that way.
I suppose I should now be offended by this text conversation today.
Grandma, please could you pick me up?
Yes, what time?
About 3.45 please.
From the usual place?
👍
Good that we both understood what it meant.

What do they use then to indicate that they don’t want to “talk” anymore.

Do you just not answer?

Our family WhatsApp group age range is 9-74 the 👍🏻 emoji is used by all .

It’s shorthand for yes/ok

Not thinking of stopping anytime soon.

Lathyrus3

What do they use then to indicate that they don’t want to “talk” anymore.

Do you just not answer?

🤐 ??

I suppose if you want to say okay, understood the word would be ‘Roger’
A whole new pearl clutching situation there.

I think the thumbs-up is now supposed to mean "Yeah yeah, whatever" (as in "change the record, I'm bored with this and I don't care what you think anyway"). I'm kind of glad that young people are starting to invent their own use of words again - just about sick of them saying "cool" every five minutes as though it wasn't even thought of in the 1950s jazz generation.

LauraNorderr

I suppose if you want to say okay, understood the word would be ‘Roger’
A whole new pearl clutching situation there.

🤣🤣🤣🤣
(That means your post made me laugh.

Paul McCartney is in trouble, it’s his standard response IRL👍🎼

When I lived in Sheffield and someone at work was being ridiculous, someone else would be sure to say: "Tek no notice."

This has remained my approach to people/ fashions /fads that simply need ignoring.

Roger Mollygo 😂

LauraNorderr do you remember Roger the Cabin Boy in Captain Pugwash? -I was so innocent at the time it washed over me liked the waves 😀

Thinking of those of us on GN who grumble about GC’s not acknowledging gifts etc, seems most of us would be glad to get a 👍🏻 from them as thanks.

🆒🍌 could be a substitute perhaps? It’s all 🥜🥜

How daft. Let's take no.notice and just use it anyway.

henetha

How daft. Let's take no.notice and just use it anyway.

👍👍

Cheers Babs.....👍

Weren’t there also claims recently that a full stop at the end of a text message was, to use that silly expression, passive aggressive?

I will not take any notice to that one 👍

JenniferEccles

Weren’t there also claims recently that a full stop at the end of a text message was, to use that silly expression, passive aggressive?

Do you know the reason given for that particular mind numbing statement? I have struggled to work out how a tiny dot of ink can offer anything other than indicate the end of a sentence. What does interest me, is where these woke ideas come from. Who is the mysterious being striving to find offence in everything, and managing somehow to insert these new woke thoughts into public consciousness?

Doodledog

I understand why it seems that way, although I sometimes use it. If it's used after a message such as 'I'm waiting under the clock' it just means 'message received' and is fine.

If it is used after a conversation it does seem to say 'over and out' which could be perceived as a bit rude.

I don't think the British are very good at this sort of thing, are we?

If it is used after a conversation it does seem to say 'over and out' which could be perceived as a bit rude.

... in which case - if a 'thumbs-up' emoji can be thought of as over and out - then so can a full-stop at the end of a sentence.

Anything then can be open to interpretation - but context is everything.

Well yes🥸. Communication is all about interpretation. I don’t think paranoia over which ‘mysterious beings’ are behind changes in nuance is particularly helpful. It’s just fashion.

People don’t say ‘spiffing’ any more, and if they did it would seem old-fashioned, or affected, or ironic. At one time it was a signifier of someone who was young, trendy and probably upper class, eh old bean?

How people perceive emojis is nothing to do with so-called ‘wokery’. ‘Woke’ just means ‘awake to injustice’, not ‘aware of trends in emojis’🤤.

Middle finger up with an upward movement is most definitely aggressive, used to be 2 fingers but has evolved to just the one. Thumbs up is just that, thumbs up, ok. 👍.

I shall continue to use the emoji. Lot of nonsense.

PS - the use of the word WOKE here is incorrect. The term WOKE clearly misunderstood.

But hey-Ho.