The Period Is Dead. Long Live The Period.

The internet and smartphone are slaying the workhorse of our language, says The New York Times.

In a June 9 article, "Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style," Dan Bilefsky cited the work of several linguists, such as the eminent David Crystal, on punctuation usage in digital communication to argue that the period, the end point of most sentences, is fading away.