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Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

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LOL is, of all things, grammar. Of course, no texter thinks about that consciously. But then most of communication operates below the radar, where things tend not to mean what they would literally.

I didn't think Trump would do the unhinged things he said he'd do. What the heck? | Opinion It's strange how all the things we were explicitly told would happen are now going to happen.