Texting has turned punctuation into a dramatic affair
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This is the greatest research ever conducted on punctuation. Period. So-called “textisms” — i.e., emoji, deliberate misspellings (“soooo”) and irregular punctuation (“!!!”) — are believed to add valuable context to text messages that otherwise lack the subtleties and nonverbal cues (tone, pauses, and gestures) of a face-to-face conversation, a recent study in the journal Computers...