The period is in peril. Right, I’ve heard of it. Don’t use it though. That’s the problem. Problem? Professor David Crystal, a language expert recently quoted in a New York Times story, says the ...

The period — the full-stop signal we all learn as children, whose use stretches back at least to the Middle Ages — is gradually being felled in the barrage of instant messaging that has become ...

Have you seen all seven before? These strange punctuation marks once served a purpose, and can again!

A few months ago, one of my fellow mom friends was accused by her teenage daughter of using "aggressive punctuation" in text messages. Since we're both writers, my friend and I discussed this new ...

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 ...

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