The internet has provided all of us with an advanced class on using innuendo, piercing invective and anger to make a point with our writing.
Now, instead of simply seething or ranting, just about anyone can write an email or a social media post that absolutely destroys someone else.
To what end?
If the goal is to persuade, it’s clearly not working.
If we want to let someone know we’re upset, it might be easier to just say so.
The purpose of speech is to alert others to our point of view, and the purpose of conversation is to connect and to persuade.
It’s not clear making language angrier or more cutting is helping much.