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Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style

• jxy 10y ago
  That s right but it s not new Old Chinese texts never used punctuation marks and Chinese people read them just fine Why putting a useless dot when you can just start a new sentence with an upper case letter We don t need question mark in English either Why use it It s already been happening in programming languages too Some arcane languages use parenthesis and some arcane languages use semicolon Hey new languages use white spaces and that s enough One last point from the article All those punctuation marks should be used for useful meanings Be gone.
  • xlm1717 10y ago
    >Hey new languages use white spaces and that s enough Some of those languages also make you "communicate new ideas" on new lines, makes for better organization of ideas than simply depending on capitalization.
  • loqi 10y ago
    ditching capital letters instead of punctuation would get rid of more redundant characters.
• wink 10y ago
  Isn't that a bit flawed logic to compare a medium that works in logical "paragraphs" (the IMs and social media they mention) with a wall of text? Yes, I also leave out some punctuation - but either because I hate fumbling with my phone or because it would be the ending period in a single post/message. Not when there are two or more sentences...