I gazed at this message for some time. The fact that this young man was going to be late was of little interest; the fact that he had used one full stop, two commas and one semicolon to tell me so was of very great interest indeed. If a 26-year-old sends elaborately punctuated text messages, does this herald the end of an era? Could it be, I wondered, that the lower-case, hey-there, c-u-l8r age of business language is over?
最近，我收到一位同事的簡訊：「我，很不幸，開會要遲到一些；地鐵晚點很久。」
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