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Criticism of Generation Z’s writing skills is unfair – language is an ever-evolving tool

If anyone takes issue with poor spelling, punctuation and grammar, it’s me. This horror of full stops predominantly applies to the realm of social media and instant messaging, where the hard-and-fast rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation cannot always apply. Young people aren’t forgoing full stops in their school essays or university papers. But social media and instant messaging aren’t killing punctuation off – only changing it. The changing meaning of the full stop indicates how sentence structure develops, much as we see new words like “selfie” or “twerking” pop up in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Independent
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