Whatever Happened to the Semicolon?
Why Punctuation Is Less About Rules and More About Economics
Wander into a Gen Z or Alpha group chat and you might struggle to find your way back out again. I’m not talking about the fun but foreign slang. I’m talking about the nonstandard grammar, missing capitalization, and sentence fragments. And punctuation? Forget about it, except maybe em dashes—and watch out for those.
Is this terrible? A crisis? A loss?
