Person typing on a keyboardMost of us are familiar with “Boomer ellipses,” or the ominous ”...” some texters use in place of a full stop or comma. Even double spacing can reveal your age; older typists prefer it, especially following a full stop, though even the staunchest defender of that grammar rule (style guide APA) conceded defeat in 2019. Speaking to HuffPost UK, language learning platform Babbel says that after pairing with the London Student Network, they found another potential generational divide. “Our findings reveal that the semicolon is an ‘endangered’ punctuation mark - abandoned by many British writers who might have been expected to showcase its value, and often misunderstood by younger generations,” they said.Gen Z seem to have abandoned the ;Renaissance printer and typographer Aldus Manutius invented the semicolon mark