It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
Name: Exclamation marks!
Age: Nearly 700 years old!
Appearance: A damning indictment of society’s gender roles!!
Are you going to do that after every sentence? I’m already exhausted. I am! Because otherwise you might not be able to see how excited I am to talk to you! And then you might start hating me!!
Now research suggests that women use exclamation marks more than men - who believe the punctuation to be feminine and emotional.
Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this…
What impact is my email etiquette having on how I'm perceived, evaluated and promoted at work?
What happens to us when we use vulgarity all the time.
Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still…
President Donald Trump has made the tricky punctuation mark a signature of his writing style.
