Want your date to believe that you truly do want to meet him or her for dinner and are just innocently running late? Want your sister to trust that you honestly have no idea where her favorite sweater ...

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 ...

An American University study found in 2007 that college students use sentence-ending punctuation marks only 39 percent of the time in texts and 45 percent of the time during instant messaging. That ...

MINOT, N.D. – Oh, no! Don’t forget the exclamation point! It could cost you $1,000! Kevin Taylor, 30, of Minneapolis, lost out on a $1,000 first prize in a text messaging contest at the North Dakota ...

The next time you go sending a message with punctuation marks, you might want to leave them out, unless you want to appear like a know-it-all busybody, that is. According to new research out of ...

Look at you, Miss Fancy Texty Pants. What with your schmancy punctuation and your insistence on writing out every word and your hoity-toity capitalizations. What with your maddening refusal to use ...

Who knew the tiny period could hold so much power? Well, in the world of texting it certainly does. Researchers at the State University of New York Binghamton found that words and sentences with ...

Siri has been able to handle punctuation commands since the get-go, but they’re among the sophisticated features that most people don’t know about. I only discovered them after using Dragon Dictation ...

It never should have happened. The seventh annual National Punctuation Day has come and gone. Somehow, it slipped by without notice Sept. 24. National Punctuation Day, or NPD, is the holiday that ...

Oh, no! Don’t forget the exclamation point! It could cost you $1,000! Kevin Taylor, 30, of Minneapolis, lost out on a $1,000 first prize in a text messaging contest at the North Dakota State Fair ...