Incidents of Full Stop.
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Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
With all due respect, you are 100% wrong. Full stop.
No offense, but I think you're taking things the wrong way.
There are limited applications of "full stop" that don't have to imply "you are wrong". It can be used to stop a conversation from going in a certain direction that is deemed inappropriate. For example, if a D&D session unexpectedly became sexual in nature. Or if someone suddenly brings politics and religion into a situation at work. In these scenarios, you can use "full stop" as a way to communicate "lets turn this conversation around and get back to a safe place before it gets nasty". Of course, the simple act of stating you don't want to discuss certain topics will be offensive to some people.
MarkB
Legend
Full stop is what we call a period in England.
Um, not that kind of period. This kind. --> .
ph0rk
Friendship is Magic, and Magic is Heresy.
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Well, at the end of the day, it is what it is.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
British English vs. American English. Both describe the punctuation mark that goes at the end of a sentence.
Bayushi_seikuro
Adventurer
It seems we're discovering a lot of people will take 'full stop' to mean different things clearly. For me, it's always a context thing. If someone is giving me directions on something, I'd take full stop to mean 'don't do anything other than what I literally (and I mean LITERALLY) just told you'. Now, if we're having a heated 'discussion' and I hear 'full stop', that means either 'end of discussion' (if from someone else - "We are done with this fighting. Full stop.") or if the other individual makes a point and ends it with 'Full stop', THAT means to me they're trying to metaphorically spike the volleyball and end it. A verbal coup de grace.
This discussion reminds me that I should go back to the classics like Tron and end my discussions with "END OF LINE"
-- END OF LINE
This discussion reminds me that I should go back to the classics like Tron and end my discussions with "END OF LINE"
-- END OF LINE
It's ideally used to remove unrelated aspects of an argument. For example, in a discussion about healing someone might point out that the Life Cleric is a powerful healer, but that's irrelevant because of its poor DPR. It would be acceptable responding with "the Life Cleric is a powerful healer. Full stop." This points out that the focus of the discussion is on healing, and the rest of their argument is superfluous. Even when used in this way, however, it's going to come off as rude.
Sadly, you are correct that it's almost always used as a way to shut down disagreement. Except in extremely common belief (e.g. "Eating babies is wrong. Full stop."), this is very inappropriate, stifling legitimate debate.
Sadly, you are correct that it's almost always used as a way to shut down disagreement. Except in extremely common belief (e.g. "Eating babies is wrong. Full stop."), this is very inappropriate, stifling legitimate debate.
It isn't. I've moved it to the Meta forum
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
I can see the 'as used in argument' description, which is probably the most common.
The phrase reminds me of safety lessons at work to drive a forklift: "When you come to this crossway, you stop - full stop; no rolling slowly forward - and look every which way for other traffic." I still see a loaded forklift when I encounter the phrase.
I mean, you're not wrong in that that's basically what it means. Though it's not quite as aggressive as that.
It's the same as "Period". A 'period' is the American version of a 'full stop'.
