The old-fashioned word for punctuation is “pointing”, and the semicolon points out, most helpfully, a change in a sentence’s direction. A little side-turn into wonder, perhaps.

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Everyday punctuation marks from the simple full stop to the quotation mark now mean something totally different as Gen Z adapt them to form new meanings, experts have revealed.

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It seems grammar still has the power to stir the public imagination, especially when the supposed death of a punctuation mark is at stake.

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I don't want to throw out the em dash just because a few trillion tokens got too enthusiastic about the punctuation. It’s still one of the most expressive grammatical tools in the English language.