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Tag: Technology

  • There’s a reason the English call it a “full stop”

    There’s a reason the English call it a “full stop”

    I made this observation at a writing-group session a couple of years ago, so I was happy to find my linguistic intuition supported with research. I used to have friends I texted several times a day, and I noticed that subtle changes such as this communicate even more with someone you text on a daily…