I...have...a confession...to make: I think that when you wedge ellipses into texts, you unintentionally rob your message of any linear train of thought. The written ...
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?
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An older woman uses a tablet computer. Texting etiquette differs with every generation. Gen X and most Millennials use fairly ...
Admittedly, using ellipses correctly according to spelling rules is cumbersome. However, isn’t the bittersweet charm of K-office life reading nuances between “nep” and “ne”? Rather than causing ...
As a punctuation mark, ellipsis refers to the dots which indicate a deliberate omission of one or more words ( or other elements) in a sentence. The writer uses it to save certain details usually ...
As I’ve been exploring iOS 13 to write the just-released Take Control of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, I’ve become concerned about what seems to be an increasingly frequent pattern in iOS software design.
From Slate: "Dashes — useful and lovely though they are — are not … ellipses. They excel at representing interruptions, trains of thought abruptly shorn off. Meanwhile, an ellipsis trails away ...
Imagine you’re playing charades. You draw a card that prompts you to act out a phone conversation. What shape does your hand take? If you’re over the age of 15, you’ll probably extend your thumb and ...