it’s about bloody time!
The way our speech cadence has changed over time is to me an unknown. But surely those who came up with the period, the comma, or even the ellipses was not thinking about sarcasm.
Take this example I read from this article just now: (scroll to last paragraph)
Funny. That’s precisely the sort of no-nonsense advice your grandmother would have given.
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clearly what this guy is trying to convey is not funny period. it’s “funny” as in “hm curious” which takes on an entirely different tone.
writers
linguists
scholars!
I beg of thee.. please lets think about this type of revision more urgently than personal pronouns. While still important, there are communication errors happening all the time for a far larger population, including those who are begging for a gender-neutral pronoun.
STILL IMPORTANT.
but priorities people…
Everyone these days communicates via text or chat. Regularly I get the feedback during my English lessons from the older bosses that their millennial employees can’t and don’t pick up the phone unless you beg them to! They automatically default to text.
A revision of punctuation has never been more important as it has become in the digital age. Period.
Try and disagree.
Greta Goes 