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People have ~feelings~ about the exclamation point (Florence Hazrat interview)
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The Distrust of the Exclamation Mark
I think relatively liberal in my use of exclamation marks, but I also confess that I sometimes go back and change them. The kind of bad press that the exclamation mark has received is actually relatively recent. It hasn't been around in the Renaissance at all,. In the Renaissance, anything went as long as it's rhetorically effective. And the exclamation Mark with being able to kind of prime us for emotion and make us sit up and kind of perk up and look and pay attention was a really effective mark.
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