Gen Z, raised on texting and social media, have sharply turned away from traditional punctuation, which they feel "comes ...

open image in gallery Who ... emoticons helped to convey meaning. Punctuation marks could be combined to create rudimentary expressions, such as a colon and a closing parenthesis to indicate ...

A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles. Emphasis—Capitalize the first word after the colon only if it is a proper noun or the start ...

The Romans eventually abandoned Aristophanes’ system of dots without a second thought (Credit: Classic Image ... punctuation at the height of the Renaissance: a mixture of ancient Greek dots ...

RADZI CHINYANGANYA: We are at DWF which is a really large corporation with over 2500 people working for the company up and down the country. This company specialises in law. RADZI: UK law is a ...

Avoid excessive use of exclamation marks! Be ambitious – practise using sophisticated punctuation such as semi-colons and colons.

In that sentence I have used the four principal marks of punctuation: the colon, the semi-colon, the comma and the full stop. Yet, it is reported, the semi-colon is dying out. The reason why is simple ...

and the occasional semi-colon to represent each book. But instead of merely turning his efforts into pretty posters, Calhoun actually analyzed them, visualizing the punctuation of these novels in ...