No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

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Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noel Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people aged from 13 to 28 were rewriting the rules to “shift” the meaning ...

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But over the last month, punctuation has returned to the back foot with two particular marks having been revealed to be in decline: the semicolon and the inverted comma or speech mark. A survey last ...

Common punctuation errors can undermine credibility in professional and academic settings. Mastering comma usage, apostrophes, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, and exclamation points is ...

I wrote that Ricardo had never been in with a fighter with the hand speed of Oscar, that when Mayorga threw wild punches and missed, he would leave himself wide open, making him vulnerable for the ...

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I have performed extensive testing. I've reinstalled VS Code completely multiple times and tested the Vim extension in isolation. The key finding is: The bug only appears in recent VS Code builds (e.g ...