Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This generational texting habit might be worse than using capital letters. This “Boomer” punctuation irritates Gen Z recipients — ...

A Harvard-educated linguist explains why Boomers use ellipses in texts, and the reason is simpler than you think.

Imagine you’re playing charades. You draw a card that prompts you to act out a phone conversation. What shape does your hand take? If you’re over the age of 15, you’ll probably extend your thumb and ...

As a punctuation mark, ellipsis refers to the dots which indicate a deliberate omission of one or more words ( or other elements) in a sentence. The writer uses it to save certain details usually ...