Period

showcrop · Jan 23, 2017

This is one of many words that are used to try to add emphasis to the users point, while at the same time trying to discount all other points and views. Is this really valid? does it really stop all responses? Does it make the user the ultimate authority? It looks like the media is interested in this today.

Dick2 · Jan 23, 2017

They said on the news that lies are now called "Alternate Facts". Will the Liar's Club have to change it's name now?

RESLLS · Jan 23, 2017

When typing it, do you put a period after period? Or do you just not
type the word and just do ..?

Greg K · Jan 23, 2017

Hahahah! That's good!. Funny how easy it is to spot sometimes, like when the name needs to be changed.

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 23, 2017

If you are a regular reader of this forum, clearly it does not.

When you use the word "period" to end your statement, you are supposed to stop talking/writing, because the use of the word "period" to end a statement means, in the stater's opinion, that no further discussion or explanation is necessary to make the point. However people will continue to prattle on and on after the use of the word "period."

Hendrik · Jan 23, 2017

Reminds me - I think it was in one of Blue Water Massey's daily history posts - of:
"When everything is said and done, some keep on saying and doing".
So, sometimes 'period' can be very appropriate if not desirable. LOL

Hendrik · Jan 23, 2017

Reminds me - I think it was in one of Blue Water Massey's daily history posts - of:
"When everything is said and done, some keep on saying and doing".
So, sometimes 'period' can be very appropriate if not desirable. LOL

4wdtom · Jan 23, 2017

Sounds like "new speak", probably the same as "fake news" which I am hearing a lot about lately, even though it has been around for a long time. What happened to reporting the facts, Who, What, When,Where,and Why. And letting the people decide for themselves what to think. When you print what you want others to think or know or your opinion that is an "editorial", there is a place for that, but it isn't news and shouldn't be passed off as news.

coshoo · Jan 23, 2017

Or, as is popularly said about D.C., "When all is said and done, much gets said and little gets done."

I agree that saying "period" seldom stops discussion. But dad would sometimes end a statement with "and that's the word with the bark on it." We didn't really understand what that meant, other than we NEVER said another word about it.

K Effective · Jan 23, 2017

in this format, the more appropriate would be:

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David G · Jan 23, 2017

It is like a parent saying, because I told you so.

rrlund · Jan 23, 2017

It just means the person talking has nothing more to say.

4520BW · Jan 23, 2017

It must be an important word. When I was younger my friends sister said she missed hers and her dad got real mad and the neighbor boy ran away.

David G · Jan 23, 2017

That is funny

Janicholson · Jan 23, 2017

In the context and emphasis that the word was used in the news, it means that alternate facts are indisputable because they would
upset the emotional apple cart. Jim

MarkB_MI · Jan 23, 2017

The use of the word "period" means there are no further qualifications to the statement. So there is no "comma, but..." clause to add on.

For example, if I say "The Corvette is the greatest production sports car in the world, period.", that is quite a different statement than "The Corvette is the greatest production sports car in the world, except for Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini."

In the particular context of which you speak, the word period has NO meaning and was added for rhetorical effect. The person who made the statement lives in a world where facts are fungible and works for a man who has zero interest in accurate and truthful statements. Since the accuracy of the statement is irrelevant, the "period" is superfluous.

ss55 · Jan 23, 2017

In the past "PERIOD!" meant the speakers mind was made up and is not open to any change regardless of reality or other people's opinions. What it means today, I won't speculate.

ss55 · Jan 23, 2017

Wouldn't it be followed by an exclamation point?

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