https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2015/thats-rude-period thoughts and family activities in an industrial suburb Wed, 23 Dec 2015 06:41:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2015/thats-rude-period#comment-1021101 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 06:41:43 +0000 http://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/?p=1080#comment-1021101 They only tested final punctuation – no, only the final period. Jury’s out on any other punctuation, though of course intraphrase punctuation does potentially offer the same nonverbal cue possibilities that the final full stop does. But I wouldn’t worry about run-on sentences in text messaging. The abbreviated nature of the medium takes care of that, and if it doesn’t, there’s the 160-character maximum.

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/2015/thats-rude-period#comment-1021086 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:59:58 +0000 http://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/?p=1080#comment-1021086 Oh no does this mean we are condemned to ever increasing unintelligible unpunctuated run on sentences

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