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Where punctuation died and tone became a full-time detective job.
means A written message sent electronically, typically short and informal, or more broadly, any body of written words.
from From Latin textus, 'that which is woven,' from texere, 'to weave' — the same root that gives us 'textile.' A text was originally the 'weave' of a written work, its words interlaced like threads into fabric. English borrowed it in the 1300s for the wording of a document, and it has climbed steadily down the ladder of formality ever since — from sacred scripture to term papers to, now, 'u up?'
- period meaning
- a full stop now reads as anger
- etymology
- from textus, latin for woven thing
- delay math
- three dots can haunt you for minutes
- rewrite count
- average text is edited before sending, rarely admitted