Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The exclamation point

It never fails. Every week someone writes an article which I have the wonderful opporunity of editing, and every week, somebody uses a keyboard that has only the exclamation point key on it. No periods, no commas, not even a question mark. Pure exclamation.
By the end of reading it I have a headache because I feel like the writer is yelling at me!
See, I used one there so you would get the feeling! Look, I used another one! See what i'm talking about, all of these damn exclamation points!!
Quit using them, pronto.
Damn you English language and your numerous types of punctuation. There's a time and place for exclamation points, and as it turns out, it's not at the end of every sentence.

1 comment:

bloggernist said...

Ditto ... funny you mention this war with punctuation ... I'm having issues, too.

http://tinyurl.com/5ughpj

My problem is with frickin' ampersands, man.