this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Informal text communication has increasingly played with punctuation and grammar to indicate tone, emotion, and cadence. This has been happening for decades. Language is a tool that is fluid and malleable. There are only rules insofar as there is broad consensus on how language works at the moment. Stop being a weenie