What happens when Europeans or Russians type this? Do they feel satisfaction or happiness?

For me it's just a weird way of saying nothing, nada, zero, if I understand correctly.

Eggsplain

I do not know, I am not educated enough to receive satisfaction from typing these words.

such cases

i doubt its educational issue, maybe you are not bydlo enough? )

Yeah, it is when they are very excited about something yielding Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

 

I assume it just feel similarly sophisticated to the recent fashion of putting emphasis on something by starting several consecutive sentences with the same expression.

 

This X is Y. This X is Z. This X is a, b and c. THIS X IS ALL OF THIS!

 

And sometimes this spans even a while paragraph. They must feel so accomplished.

Go on and tell us the story behind your extrapolation

Seems like more of a millennial thing. I agree it seems to track education though, in that I’ve only seen millennial women with college degrees do this.

I work in academia and I've never seen anyone type this

There's a large potential gap between academics/intellugentsia and "people with degrees". I have a degree and I wouldn't consider myelf part of the former.

It's definitely a woman thing though. It's some kind of self-assurance.

It's always so ridiculous when I hear about what's going on in American "universities" and colleges. They really are glorified schools in comparison to what we have in the Old World.

It depends on where you go and what you study. I found it less like the usual horror stories you hear online, though that may have been due to my field of study and lack of social interaction. Can't say I can compare them to Euro schools though, no experience there.

This depends entirely on the school, the department, and your classmates. If there is a pro to the American system is that it offers a substantial amount of flexibility. In my PhD program in biochemistry there was someone that studied Greek classics for an undergraduate degree and someone who spent seven years as a bartender before going back to study for his PhD.

 

Both of those people are nontraditional students and have done really well, both publishing a lot as well as getting teaching/post docs at nice institutions.

 

Such a move would be impossible in say, the French or nordic systems.