2mo ago

Let people be

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Now once more in English.
- That was English. I read it just fine. Are you dyslexic?
  
  I'm English and in England. I'm having a bit of trouble with "u get left on read.." Can someone help me out please?
  
  left on "read" (past participle) = the guy doesn't reply.
  It relates to the messaging apps showing "read" when someone has read the message, but not yet replied.
  
  That makes sense. Thank you!
  
  I'm an American, and I had to ask my wife what that was the first time I saw it. And then I needed an explanation on why that was a problem, because I had thought the point of text messages was that you could read it and get back at your convenience, as opposed to a phone call you have to respond to in the moment.
  Apparently I'm old.
  
  One advantage of SMS over other messengers. As far as I'm concerned whether I've read a message or not is nobody's fucking business but my own.
  
  Exactly, which is why I refuse to enable read receipts or use services where it can't be disabled.
  I'll get notifications and read them without actually opening them, and I'll also open messages without actually reading them. I don't want people to make assumptions based on the read status, so I refuse to engage with that feature.
  
  It is heavy slang. A non native speaker could have a heck of a time wading through this.
  
  English is my third language and I had no problem understanding it (and neither did whoever or whatever is behind the account you replied to, and I've got them tagged as a russian — or chinese — troll bot account)...
  I do wish, however, that anyone who writes “U” instead of “you” would slowly die of exploding anal cists and haemorrhoids, though, I'll give you that.
  
  Perhaps you can explain then. I do not know what left on read means?
  
  When you send someone a message in some messaging system which has read confirmations (like whatsapp, for instance, or outlook), and the message is marked as read (or you receive a message read confirmation, or whatever equivalent your messaging system has), but they never actually reply, which often implies that they don't want to (or can't be bothered to, same difference). Whatever the case they probably don't have as much respect for you as you have for them.
  As a metaphor I suppose it can also mean doing something for someone without getting anything in return, even though reciprocation would normally be expected.

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