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When you receive a message like "The doctor has advised me not to eat any type of crushed Asians," you have two choices. One, ...

Nobody sets out to write a song that attempts to sum up an entire decade. If someone were foolhardy enough to try, they’d likely be headed for failure. Nonetheless, some top songwriters might be able ...

Dresios and Korkmaz argue for the importance of semicolons in writing. As innocent bystanders in the rapidly changing hellscape of the English language, semicolons have received far too much ...

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We take them for granted, but they are the backbone of how we write. Where would we be if you couldn’t emphasize your shock by ending your sentence with “?!” or using “;” to signal a pause? The scene ...

James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look at how Joyce's ...

After widely rolling out the “Font size” setting last week, the latest Gboard for Android update lets you hide the period and comma keys. Under Gboard Settings > Preferences, you’ll find new toggles ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustrations by It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's ...