CNN News: 句號(hào)和短信的矛盾

English teachers have got to be thankful they don`t have to correct grammar for text messages. A new study out of Binghamton University in New York found that ending each sentence with a period, like you`re supposed to end a sentence, can actually be a bad thing in a text.

各位英語老師們應(yīng)該非常慶幸不用為同學(xué)們更改短信中國的語法錯(cuò)誤。紐約賓漢姆頓大學(xué)的一項(xiàng)新的研究表明每一句話以句話結(jié)束，這樣你就應(yīng)該結(jié)束一個(gè)句子，這樣的用法在短信中實(shí)際上是一件非常糟糕的事情。

The study involved 126 undergraduate students. They saw answers to simple text questions like, "Wanna go see a movie tonight?" And they felt that one word answers with a period, like, "Yes, period", seemed less sincere than just the word "yes" all by itself.

該項(xiàng)研究有126位大學(xué)生參與。他們看到見到這些短信上發(fā)的問題，“今晚要不要一起看電影?”他們認(rèn)為一個(gè)詞就可以回答這個(gè)問題，比如“好的，句號(hào)。”這樣似乎比僅僅一個(gè)單詞“好的”更有誠意。

Apparently, they found that the period made the response seemed less enthusiastic. Researchers pointed out that this applied to text messages only. Periods were seen as OK in handwritten notes. The study indicates that the rules of texting are just different, period.

顯然，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，這個(gè)句號(hào)讓回答缺乏的熱情。研究者指出這僅僅適用于短信。在記錄筆記時(shí)，適用句號(hào)是可以的。該項(xiàng)研究表明短信的書寫規(guī)則是與眾不同的，句號(hào)。