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 ...

Deliberately choosing to end texts with a period when one isn’t otherwise required “is where people get these ‘feelings’ in certain circumstances, that a period is passive aggressive ...

Or perhaps that period you used made your tone seem curt when you were just trying to end a sentence. Maybe you read an exclamation point as shouting when it was intended to be friendly.

If you don’t end a sentence with a period it leaves the conversation open, but when you add the period, it signals that the conversation is over. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...