A few months ago, one of my fellow mom friends was accused by her teenage daughter of using "aggressive punctuation" in text messages. Since we're both writers, my friend and I discussed this new ...

“Semicolon usage in British English books has fallen by nearly 50% in the past two decades,” a report by the language-learning website Babbel proclaimed in May. Their findings had the desired effect.

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 ...

If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...

Let us today sing out in praise of punctuation, the undervalued signposts of language, the critical cues that help readers make their way through barren and forbidding forests of words, the markings ...