High Dive Ep. 2: Exclamaquest

Did you know that using periods in text messages is as dead as the telegram? Yeah, we didn't either. We asked Gen Z to tell us why. 0:00 Punctuation–It’s an Urgent Matter 1:25 Punctuation Is “Aggressive”? 2:46 Asking Gen Z for voice memos 6:52 The Rise of the Exclamation Point 8:59 Flagging Emails as “High Priority” 11:06 The Double-Exclamation Emoji 17:19 Has AI Killed the Em Dash? 19:27 A Brief History of the Interrobang 24:16 All-caps, Italics, and Bold, Oh My! 25:48 Gen Z Schools Us in Punctuation 28:26 The Oxford Comma Debate 31:13 Reading the Chicago Manual on a Plane 34:02 Robert Frost and the Colon