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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly ...

Let me explain. A recent post on Reddit said, "TIL periods in text messages signal I am old." (TIL means Today I Learned, and if you didn't know that, well, TYL.) The post: "I went through all of my ...

While we all slip up from time to time, there are some basic punctuation mistakes you should never make in formal writing. For example, don't confuse "it's" and "its," don't use an apostrophe to ...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Now we can't even text - text, the thing millennials practically invented on T9 keyboards - without being called out by Gen Z. The generation who banned skinny jeans and ...

Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won’t do, here ...

If you’ve spent the weekend enjoying a good book in the May sun, you might not have been thinking about mathematics. But if you were reading a book in a Western language, there’s a good chance that ...

The handsome, articulate, intelligent man wore a bright green midriff peasant blouse. Not really. No intelligent person would do that. But I offer up this sentence not as an example of fashion sense ...