The article on the elusive 'yes' and the one on angry full stops are great wider reading and you can use them as a springboard for further research.
I use 'yes' often; maybe because I am a teacher and we feed back a great deal. How often do you use 'yes'?
I am also finding work emails to my team mates a struggle and that second article really highlighted why. I can't really use a smiley but a full stop does seem cold and fail to convey the tone I want to use in emilaing colleagues I am friendly with. Problematic. We haven't agreed the changes amongst ourselves yet so synchronic language change can lead to confusion and doubt. Is there any way of resolving this - a sort of punctuation Urban Dictionary? But can I then use these conventions in semi-formal emails? Aargh!
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