Hello, Catherine here from BBC Learning English. Just so you know, this programme is from the BBC Learning English Archive and was first broadcast广播 in September 2016 on our website. And now, on with the show! Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Alice. And I'm Neil. So, Neil, you texted me earlier and didn't put a full stop at the end. You're right. I never use full stops in text. They're much too stuffy通风不好的 or formal正式的. Texting is like conversation.
You don't need lots of punctuation. Well, punctuation is the subject of today's show. And I know I'm a bit of a stickler about this, but I think you're letting the standards of written English language slip. A stickler is someone who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing. Surely当然 you aren't such a stickler for punctuation rules that you want to stop the evolution演变 of English, Alice? No, of course not, but I am a stickler when people don't follow the rules of punctuation, because this makes written text ambiguous暧昧的 or difficult to understand.
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