Punctuation
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The familiar marks that punctuate text – the periods, commas, semicolons, and so forth – have not always added their pauses and emphases throughout the history of the written word.
A Brief History of English Punctuation
Over at Good , Anne Trubek writes that emoticons have a natural place in the history of punctuation . Moreover, she suggests that the development of punctuation marks irritated some people as much as emoticons irk today’s grammar police. Even the spaces between words are punctuation, Trubek reminds us:
