These Are the Most Savage Ways to Start or End an Email
How do you begin your work emails? Do you go with a simple “Hey?” Or are you into formal greetings like “Good afternoon?” or “Salutation, right, trusty, and well-beloved friend?”…
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How do you begin your work emails? Do you go with a simple “Hey?” Or are you into formal greetings like “Good afternoon?” or “Salutation, right, trusty, and well-beloved friend?”…
Photo: Ruth B (Shutterstock) Colons and semicolons are the indie rock of punctuation marks. They’re not mainstream-popular like the period. They aren’t obvious and eager-to-please like the exclamation mark. They’re…
Photo: simona pilolla 2 (Shutterstock) Whether you write for a living, functionally as part of your job, or as little as humanly possible because thinking about high school English still…
Screenshot: Pranay Parab / MacStories The iPhone keyboard has a hidden superpower—beneath its usual letters, numbers, and symbols lie a treasure trove of less common but still useful symbols. The…
Hey. We need to talk. Specifically, we need to discuss using periods at the end of texts and instant messages. (Again.) Even though many of us use periods all day,…
Photo: TungCheung (Shutterstock) If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma . The Oxford comma, you see,…
Photo: Aleksandra Gigowska (Shutterstock) If you want to master some of the more mysterious elements of grammar, we’re going to have to talk about dashes—yes, those simple horizontal lines that…
Image: Shutterstock I recently posted a deal on a dash cam that seemed pretty slick. It had all sorts of neat features that made it more robust than your average…
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Illustration: Media Whalestock (Shutterstock) I…have…a confession…to make: I think that when you wedge ellipses into texts, you unintentionally rob your message of any linear train of thought. The written word…