密歇根新闻广播 发信息的时候该如何正确使用标点符号

Texting has become a dominant¹ means of communication in today's interconnected world.

Some reports suggest that large swaths of Americans prefer it to talking on their phone.

If you count yourself among the 97% of Americans who send at least one text every day, it might be time to take another look at your texting etiquette². According to University of Michigan English professor Anne Curzan, there's a chance you're doing it all wrong.

"You need to be careful," Curzan said. "There's stuff going on with punctuation³ in texting. It is getting repurposed … and the period has come to be seen as serious, if not a little bit angry."

She explained that it all has to do with the fact that texting lacks all the context of the spoken language. You can't hear a person's tone or see their expression or body language. Without these cues, savvy⁴ texters are turning to punctuation to make themselves understood.

Curzan told us the more neutral way to end a text is not with a period, but with no punctuation at all.

"What we're seeing here is that the written language needs to be adapted to deal with texting," she said.

"The important point here is that it's not chaos," Curzan assured us.

"I think for those of us who are trying to figure out these conventions, we can say, ‘These young people don't know how to use punctuation.' But in fact, they do know how to use punctuation, they're just using it in a different way from the way we learned to do it. In fact, for young texters, they use punctuation one way when they're texting, and another way when they're doing formal writing for school. They know how to switch it up."

1 dominant   

adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因

参考例句：

• The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
• She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。

2 etiquette   

n.礼仪，礼节；规矩

参考例句：

• The rules of etiquette are not so strict nowadays.如今的礼仪规则已不那么严格了。
• According to etiquette,you should stand up to meet a guest.按照礼节你应该站起来接待客人。

3 punctuation   

n.标点符号，标点法

参考例句：

• My son's punctuation is terrible.我儿子的标点符号很糟糕。
• A piece of writing without any punctuation is difficult to understand.一篇没有任何标点符号的文章是很难懂的。

4 savvy   

v.知道，了解；n.理解能力，机智，悟性；adj.有见识的，懂实际知识的，通情达理的

参考例句：

• She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
• Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？