This is something I first noticed about a year ago, give or take. Like, I’ll say “the sky is purple” and someone will respond with “it’s blue?” Why do people do that?

It’s such a strange thing for me, because I’m used to question marks being used for questions, not statements. It feels like at some point, I accidentally fell into an alternate dimension where this is considered a normal use of punctuation.

I know English is a continually-evolving language, so things like this shouldn’t be unexpected. Even still, this development feels bizarre to me.

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    I see your logic. I still wonder how this became popular though. Is it just one of those things people have been doing for a long time that I didn’t notice, and then one day I noticed it and I started seeing it everywhere?

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s just typical evolution of language, which happens pretty rapidly, since each generation likes to distance themselves a bit from their parent’s generation. It saves a bit of typing, and since typing is such a common activity, it makes sense, just like using ‘u’ instead of ‘you’.

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      1 year ago

      I think its always been around. It might be more common to see it without further qualification (IE, “It’s blue, isn’t it?”), possibly because of the popularity of short-form content, but I don’t think its a new thing.