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.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...

A small mark with big meaning. Why is punctuation important? From emails to text messages, poetry to novels, punctuation guides readers, creates rhythm and brings clarity to even the most complex ...

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 ...

The vital role punctuation marks play in giving meaning, direction and flow to any writing cannot be over emphasised. A carelessly placed comma, hyphen, semi-colon, full colon or quotation mark ...

Where character counts were constrained, emoticons helped to convey meaning. Punctuation marks could be combined to create rudimentary expressions, such as a colon and a closing parenthesis to ...

Another use for these important punctuation marks is to suggest an alternate or ironic meaning for something. (If you use your hands to signal this, they’re called “air quotes.”) ...