“I think it's a huge problem that we are losing the notion of the paragraph… Traditionally, a thought is longer than a single sentence, right? Like, what can we say in a single sentence? And so I would be worried now that… we are losing the capacity to produce a unit of thought in language.”

yeah, that

…not. We just do all kinds of writing that isn't formal at all. And of course, I guess that means we should expect to see some punctuation get shed. You mentioned the abruptness of the full stop. Are there any other ways that you can identify where digital communication is changing punctuation?

think I sometimes forget, because I have a job that includes using a computer, and I'm of the kind of like European millennial generation where, for example, big purchases go on big screens. Like I don't buy flights on my phone. That's incredibly weird to me, or like anything expensive. Like you…

I remember when I decided I didn't need a desktop computer anymore and I've just been doing things on laptops, but even that for some people is a bit too much. Wow. The thing that I was going to go to was people avoiding M dashes. I'm a big M dash user and people are avoiding them because they…

Oh, really? Oh, wow. Maybe, you know, you should also avoid words like honestly, you know, honestly, comma. Delves. That's a good idea. Exactly. Yes, yes. So it's like a combination of markers. But it is true. I mean, some people say that's AI doesn't use these M dashes, but in very few…