An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! Hazrat Florence
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! Hazrat Florence "Splendid exploration"--Wall Street JournalFew punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation…
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An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! Hazrat Florence
"Splendid exploration"--Wall Street JournalFew punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation marks are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a character say that multiple !!! It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings!
So what's the deal with ! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. ?Whether you think it's over-used, or enthusiastically sprinkle your writing with it, !
is inescapable. An Admirable Point recuperates the exclamation mark from its much maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy. It explores how !
came about in the first place some six hundred years ago, and uncovers the many ways in which ! has left its mark on art, literature, (pop)