Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This generational texting habit might be worse than using capital letters. This “Boomer” punctuation irritates Gen Z recipients — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine you’re playing charades. You draw a card that prompts you to act out a phone conversation. What shape does your hand take?

The job description of the ellipsis has changed, Matthew J.X. Malady writes. His emails, his text messages…full of three-point shots. Clay Shirky hypothesizes to him that “people are trying to use ...

Gen Z sees Boomers' use of ellipses as a sign of "hesitation, irritation, or passive aggression." In today's fast-paced digital landscape, communication styles differ widely across generations, ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

Punctuation marks are the flesh and bones of every modern written language. Sometimes, missing out a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence (for example, “Let’s eat Grandpa!” means ...

Punctuation basics are easy. A period ends a sentence. A comma represents a pause. A quotation mark indicates a quotation. An apostrophe shows possession. Most people get that. But the finer points — ...