If you hang out with anyone under 30, you might have noticed that punctuation has been getting a bad rap lately, especially when it comes to texting. While putting a period at the end of a sentence ...

I don't enjoy studying punctuation nearly as much as researching language, but I appreciate the grave importance of commas, periods, apostrophes and more. I'm not sure how long this has been true, but ...

We had a good thing going for a while, but it could soon be toast. By “we,” I mean readers, writers and editors. By “a good thing,” I mean a system for placing periods and commas relative to quotation ...