There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

For Gen Z, though, this lack of care for punctuation goes beyond casual text messages. One millennial wrote about how ...

Gen Z seem to have abandoned the ; Renaissance printer and typographer Aldus Manutius invented the semicolon mark in the 15th century; it appeared for the first time in 1494 in Manutius’s De Aetna.

It was meant to show a pause slightly longer than a comma but shorter than a short stop. Using Google Ngram Viewer, a tool developed with Harvard University to spot writing patterns over time ...

Peter Rhodes on youth mobility, an epidemic of sadness and the demise of an old punctuation mark According to a survey (however would we manage without those four words?), the semicolon is dying out.

Keep reading to discover 12 little-known punctuation marks that grammar nerds—and your third grade teacher—will love. Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more knowledge, humor ...

So, today, Cocogun is launching a new punctuation mark: the am dash. The am dash enables writers of all kinds, from journalists to authors to copywriters, to take back control.

That bold punctuation, which greeted me each morning as I walked to my desk, was meant as the exception rather than the rule in the work I was assigned to do.

The film humorously explores the world of punctuation, particularly focusing on the importance of periods, exclamation points, and question marks in writing. It presents a fictional "period room ...

Adam Aleksic is a Gen Z linguist and content creator. Don’t be alarmed if you see young people use increasingly macabre emojis online. In the past few years, for instance, the skull emoji has ...

That little dot and vertical line at the end of the first three sentences, otherwise known as an exclamation mark. But in old-fashioned newspaper-speak, a screamer. A gasper. A startler.