Punctuation: Important for academic and published writing. Not a bad idea if you just want to be understood.
Punctuation on a smartphone is a problem sometimes. As a result, many people almost give up on punctuation when they use Twitter and other online tools that are most often used from a mobile …
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A reader asked about the difference between a minus symbol and an N-dash (thanks Tem). I had to do a bit of homework on this. Unicode (the standard for electronically encoding text information) …
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After writing about the n-dash and m-dash, I was surprised to find this is a very popular topic. A reader asked for details about how to insert an n-dash or m-dash on a web page or blog. It is …
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This seems to be a common problem: When you write a web address at the end of a sentence, should you follow it with punctuation, or use no punctuation? If I use punctuation after a URL will it …
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