The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not ...

The punctuation problem ignited over social media recently, with Gen Z and millennials agreeing that ending a sentence with a period is overly hostile and, worse yet, extremely uncool.

The punctuation is polite when speaking to someone older than you or above you at work, but off-putting among friends. Simply put, the inclusion of a formality in casual communication is unnerving.

Fine. Sure. Yes. No. Hardly. Whatever. In a longer piece of writing like an article, blog post or even email, periods are usually necessary. They show the reader where one thought ends and another ...

The study's findings aren't groundbreaking, either. Evidence of the "don't end texts with a period" phenomenon could be found online for years before Klin's team published its research.. A New ...

The film humorously explores the world of punctuation, particularly focusing on the importance of periods, exclamation points, and question marks in writing. It presents a fictional "period room ...

The conspicuous omission of the period in text messages and in instant messaging on social media is a product of the punctuation-free staccato sentences favored by millennials — and increasingly ...

So in recognition of National Punctuation Day (yes, there really is a day for everything), and which took place yesterday, September 24, let us take a step back and appreciate the difference ...

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 last 24,000 words of James Joyce’s groundbreaking 1922 novel “Ulysses” contain only two periods and one comma. Cormac McCarthy’s 2007 saga “No Country for Old Men” has lots of dialogue but no ...