Like most parents, I text with my teens regularly, and I feel fairly competent: I’m a good communicator, know the lingo, and ...

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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 probably already know the interrobang, thanks to its excellent moniker and increasing popularity. Though the combination exclamation point and question mark can be replaced by using one of each ...

Are you using punctuation when you text? You may be sending the wrong message. Text messages that end with a period are perceived to be less sincere than messages not containing punctuation, according ...

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 ...