How do you punctuate around emoticons and emoji?
I’m on Mental Floss talking about an important issue: how to integrate emoticons and emoji into our system of punctuation:
Not punctuating at all doesn’t have as many obviously weird examples, but it also feels like it’s lacking in meaning—sure, I could say most of these, but if I really wanted to include four exclamation marks, I think I’d feel bereft at having to ditch them all. (Read the rest.)
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