An interesting-for-English-teachers article in today’s New York Times talks about the changes in the way people are employing the period at the end of sentences. The change is especially notable in ...
The period is in peril. Thought so. The period is that dot you put at the end of a group of words known as a sentence. Right, I’ve heard of it. Don’t use it though. That’s the problem. Professor David ...
ST. LOUIS – A revolution against punctuation. Apparently the younger generation – Gen Z and Millennials don’t trust the punctuation mark “period”. Social media experts claims ending a sentence with a ...
Two big things have been happening on the internet, in relation to orthography. New styles have proliferated; and old punctuation marks have begun to develop new meanings. Regular emailers will have ...
First it came for the commas which are commonly used to denote pauses and breaks in a sentence but are kind of hard to remember and find on the phone keyboard so what's the point right? And now it's ...
If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...