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Is the semi-colon semi-dead?
No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...
Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...
There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.
Democrats have been frustrated by President Donald Trump‘s undeniable success in messaging to his constituents, marveling at ...
For Gen Z, though, this lack of care for punctuation goes beyond casual text messages. One millennial wrote about how ...