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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Silver Pines on July 03, 2018, 11:07:04 pm
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Read This Article!!!
How many exclamation points do you need to seem genuinely enthusiastic?
By Julie Beck / The Atlantic
June 27, 2018
How many exclamation points does it take to exclaim something? One, a human of sound mind and a decent grasp of punctuation might say. The exclamation point denotes exclamation. That is its point. One should suffice.
But, on the internet, it often doesn’t. Not anymore. Digital communication is undergoing exclamation-point inflation. When single exclamation points adorn every sentence in a business email, it takes two to convey true enthusiasm. Or three. Or four. Or more.
I noticed this in my own social circles recently. Multiple exclamation points were popping up in mundane places, not attached to hyperbole or any kind of frenzied emotion. A simple work email might yield a “Sounds good!!!†I find myself doing it, too.
“All of these quirks of social media—that would include exclamation points, and all caps, and repetition of letters, those are the three main ones that show enthusiasm—people use more of them,†says Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.
This sort of inflation is a natural linguistic phenomenon that regularly happens to words, like how awesome was once reserved for that which truly struck awe into a quavering heart and is now scarcely more than a verbal thumbs up. But this time it’s happening to punctuation.
More at:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/exclamation-point-inflation/563774/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/exclamation-point-inflation/563774/)
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For anybody with an inner grammar nerd...
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@guitar4jesus
Lol
I was just looking at, uh, another site, and I realized this article is dead-on.
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I SOOOOO DON'T GET IT!!!!!!!
:silly: :smokin:
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I SOOOOO DON'T GET IT!!!!!!!
:silly: :smokin:
:thumbsup:!!
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"Read This Article!!!"
Isn't that against one of the first rules of internet commenting?
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BOOM!!!!
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BOOM!!!!
Should be BOOOOOM!!!!
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Should be BOOOOOM!!!!
LOL sorry! :laugh:
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Is this about me?????
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Is this about me?????
Funny!!!!!
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WATCH THIS VIDEO!!! STRONG LANGUAGE!!! NSFW!!!
FOURTH OF JULY IN THE HOOD!!!
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WATCH THIS VIDEO!!! STRONG LANGUAGE!!! NSFW!!!
FOURTH OF JULY IN THE HOOD!!!
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1mbG2dGXU#)[/size]
OMG!!!
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"Read This Article!!!"
Isn't that against one of the first rules of internet commenting?
@rustynail
Can't argue that one.
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BOOM!!!!
@Wingnut
!!!!!Woo-hoo!!!!!!
!!!
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In the tradition of overreacting this post will have no punctuation at all to show that Ive completely shut off my emotions
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In the tradition of overreacting this post will have no punctuation at all to show that Ive completely shut off my emotions
it would have helped if u hadnt used caps too
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it would have helped if u hadnt used caps too
That just makes a person look like they don't know how to use a computer keyboard.
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As long as this broad doesn't say anything about periods, I'm fine............
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As long as this broad doesn't say anything about periods, I'm fine............
I have a tendency to do that, as well......
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For anybody with an inner grammar nerd...
Don't get me started..... :smokin:
Pet peeve regarding the proper use of 'to...too'.
Especially when it happens over and over with a poster who, otherwise, shows high intellect.
I mean, come on, man!
PS: Thank you, Sister Mary Redempta.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly my first thought too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly my first thought too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Frank Cannon
As long as this broad doesn't say anything about periods, I'm fine............
What about colons?
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Saw a great meme on Bookface last night. There were a bunch of wooden pencils with grammar phrases printed on the sides. There was one marked "Love the Oxford Comma." Several pencils down there was one that had printed "To, Two and Too."