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Originally Posted by offTopic
Bitchy sting is obvious through context and the presence or absence of exclamation marks does nothing to change that (other than adding a dash of disingenuousness)
I cannot disagree
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Josie,
It's not your fault. Society has gotten together and slowly but surely stigmatized ending a sentence normally and has stopped properly treating exclamation marks as the exception rather than the rule. Your impulse to protect yourself from being misinterpreted is pretty reasonable.
Very true LKJ. However, Imma plug this leak.
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Originally Posted by foatie
This is hilarious. I communicate/partner with about 25-27 advertising agencies and this overuse of the exclamation point seems to strictly be a woman thing. Every single correspondence is riddled with exclamation points. I just assume they're conveying their Adderall energy through email.
Grrr that's true and the fact that its true about women, pisses me off even more.
I remember being a smart ass in school once (imagine that!) and there was a test where you had to add proper punctuation to the end of a list of sentences. I added ! to ever one of them. (true story) Teacher thought only a couple warranted a ! but I argued that every sentence would be grammatically correct with a ! at the end, and I was right. The same can't be said about a . or a ?.
Imagine that.