Punctuation is a concept borrowed from communication theory and applied to family systems and other arenas of conflict. Bateson provided the example of a couple in which one partner nags and the other ...

Recently in this space we talked about how, when two punctuation marks bump up against each other, one can sometimes preclude the other. For example, a phrase that would normally be followed by a ...

Punctuation matters. I’ve always remembered a poster on the wall of a co-worker’s office—this was back in the 80s—that showed baby seals dancing at a disco under a four-word caption: STOP CLUBBING, ...

Some punctuation marks get all of the attention. The serial comma, for example, is a hot topic, with 11 million Google hits plus another 11 million if you search its other name, Oxford comma.