If you’ve spent the weekend enjoying a good book in the May sun, you might not have been thinking about mathematics. But if you were reading a book in a Western language, there’s a good chance that ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Glance at these two text messages: “we need to talk” “We. Need. To. Talk.” That shift in punctuation transforms a concerning message into something that feels decidedly more serious ...

A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here – but shouldn’t there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent ...

Marketing efforts tend to be focused around images, videos, stories, and few people give a thought to the role of the humble full stop or comma. Alex Darmon explains why there’s more to punctuation ...

AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and less robotic. This trend highlights a new anxiety around writing, as perfect ...

Hazard functions represent the probability of using a punctuation mark as a function of the length of the sequence without these marks. In terms of punctuation, the most 'cross-linguistic' is German ...