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Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry?

  • Written by Lauren Collister, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
imageAnd you thought it just indicated the end of a sentence..."Dots" via www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention.

People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s goi...

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