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The Period, Our Simplest Punctuation Mark, Has Become a Sign of Anger - 0 views

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shared by Mathieu Plourde on 03 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Mathieu Plourde on 03 Dec 13
     
    ""In the world of texting and IMing … the default is to end just by stopping, with no punctuation mark at all," Liberman wrote me. "In that situation, choosing to add a period also adds meaning because the reader(s) need to figure out why you did it. And what they infer, plausibly enough, is something like 'This is final, this is the end of the discussion or at least the end of what I have to contribute to it.'""
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shared by Mathieu Plourde on 09 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Mathieu Plourde on 09 Apr 15
     
    "Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic - try editing this sentence to remove the red."
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